UPDATE!!! In a 12/29 e-mail communication with the San Diego Union-Tribune‘s Newsroom Operations Manager (in reference to their coverage below), she pledges: “I will follow up with our online staff right now. We will get it corrected or taken down.” Yet, as of 11am pst today the story still appears online in its original form. Those who live in southern California may also wish to voice their opinion at: http://www.signonsandiego.com/contactus/.
For anyone who missed the worldwide corporate media’s hysterical anti-pot headlines last week, here’s a sampling:
Cannabis more damaging to adolescent brains than previously known
via Emax Health
“New research shows that teens who consume cannabis daily can suffer anxiety and depression. Smoking marijuana can have long-term irreversible effects on adolescent brains, and is more harmful to teens than previously known.”
Teen marijuana use affects brain permanently: study
via CBC News
“The findings suggest daily marijuana use by teens can cause depression and anxiety, and have an irreversible effect on the brain.”
Pot damage on teens worse than thought
via UPI wire services
“Daily consumption of marijuana in teens can cause depression and anxiety, and have irreversible long-term effect on the brain, Canadian researchers say.”
Cannabis brain damage worse in teens than thought: study
via The Canadian Press
“The effects of daily cannabis use on teenage brains is worse than originally thought, and the long-term effects appear to be irreversible, new research from McGill University suggests.”
Sounds scary, huh? It’s meant to. Only there’s three serious problems with the mainstream media’s alarmist coverage.
1) No adolescents — or for that matter, any human beings whatsoever — actually participated in the study.
2) No actual cannabis was consumed in the study.
3) No permanent brain damage was reported in the study.
Don’t believe me? Well then, check out the actual source of the headlines yourself.
Chronic exposure to cannabinoids during adolescence but not during adulthood impairs emotional behaviour and monoaminergic neurotransmission
via PubMed
“We tested this hypothesis by administering the CB(1) receptor agonist WIN55,212-2, once daily for 20 days to adolescent and adult rats. … Chronic adolescent exposure but not adult exposure to low (0.2 mg/kg) and high (1.0 mg/kg) doses led to depression-like behaviour in the forced swim and sucrose preference test, while the high dose also induced anxiety-like consequences in the novelty-suppressed feeding test. … These (findings) suggest that long-term exposure to cannabinoids during adolescence induces anxiety-like and depression-like behaviours in adulthood and that this may be instigated by serotonergic hypoactivity and noradrenergic hyperactivity.”
To summarize: Investigators administered daily doses of a highly potent synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonist WIN,55,212-2 to both adolescent rats and adult rats for 20 days. Days following their exposure, researchers documented altered serotonin production in younger rats. (Why investigators presumed that the change in serotonin production would be permanent I have no idea. After the initial 20-day waiting period, researchers do not appear to have tested the rats’ serotonin levels ever again.) Researchers also documented supposed depression-like and anxiety-like behavior in certain rats, based on various elaborate animal models and preference tests.
Yet somehow based on this speculative preclinical evidence, the mainstream media — in unison — proclaimed:
Reefer badness
via San Diego Tribune
“A study of Canadian teenagers … found that smoking the illicit drug is harder on young brains than originally thought. Writing in the journal Neurobiology of Disease, researchers at McGill University in Montreal said daily consumption of cannabis in teens can cause significant depression and anxiety and have an irreversible long-term effect on the brain.”
In truth, the purported ‘study’ never said anything of the sort!
So why the does the MSM consistently get the story wrong when it comes to pot? You can check out my previous thoughts on the issue here.
Legalize it and:
huge tax revenues which could be used for at worst case, free clinics for ppl who wanted off drugs, at best case, free health care for all!!
also, elimination of illegal dealers > elimination of more crime..
increased US production > less imported weed > less money supporting foreign terrorists..
less crooked cops on the take from current ‘dealers’, ‘distributors’, ‘importers’…
less police resources wasted in the control/ eradication of the plant…
less waste by foreign governments in the attempt to eradicate…
boost to the ‘snack-food’ industry !
a MUCH calmer population !!
Unbeleivable… I don’t get how studys get published and spammed on mainstreeam news when they can never put an actual study that monitered the actual consumption of marijuana.
I personally think that if pot wasn’t so taboo and all the reefer madness would calm down that kids wouldn’t be looked at depressed because they smoke pot. When I tried pot when I was in high school I enjoyed it a lot but the guilt I felt at home around my parents and my adult friends I looked up to (which now I know at 22 years old they all smoke pot and are advocates themselves but wanted me to wait until 18 or so to really smoke marijuana) If it was more understood and people were comfortable talking about it things would be so much easier.
The mainstream media is owned by the same corporate big whigs who got marijuana illegalized in the 1930s. Don’t think that William Randolph Hearst left it for the paper giants to fight. I’m sure he convinced everyone in most media of the purported ill that cannabis can/will do to the world.
William Randolph Heart
William S. Paley (CBS)
David Sarnoff (NBC)
Edward Noble (original owner of ABC)
The Walt Disney Corportation (current owners of ABC)
Rupert Murdoch
… the list can go on and on. We all know the story. Its no lie. The proof is out there that this cannabis prohibition is a result of a HUGE CONSPIRACY by corporate giants.
The tides are changing though. Its just a matter of time before cannabis prohibition ends. I say in the next 3 years.
I really don’t understand how the world will not let marijuana be legal. Alcohol has much more of a threat then weed will ever have. I believe that the government should just legalize and capitalize. If marijuana was legal the government would make a serious profit off of the distribution of it in stores. People that are in prison for marijuana could be let go making room for the “real criminals” to be there. Set an age for people to purchase marijuana like there is for alcohol and tobacco. The article up top focus alot on teens smoking marijuana, which is possibly true, but there is alot more stuff teens do that should as bad as marijuana. Teens drink alcohol and go drunk driving all the time and noone is trying to make alcohol illegal they’ll lose too much money doing that, same as tobacco. It’s just funny because America wants marijuana to be illegal yet you can go to the majority of stores and buy pipes, bongs, bowls, blunts etc. It doesn’t make sense.
Ron b.
New Jersey
This should be published and broadcasted all over the news. Seriously, this shows exactly what the media does to the simple minded viewers
I really don’t understand how the world will not let marijuana be legal. Alcohol has much more of a threat then weed will ever have. I believe that the government should just legalize and capitalize. If marijuana was legal the government would make a serious profit off of the distribution of it in stores. People that are in prison for marijuana could be let go making room for the “real criminals” to be there. Set an age for people to purchase marijuana like there is for alcohol and tobacco. The article up top focuses alot on teens smoking marijuana, which is possibly true, but there is alot more stuff teens do that should be as bad as marijuana. Teens drink alcohol and go drunk driving all the time and noone is trying to make alcohol illegal they’ll lose too much money doing that, same as tobacco. It’s just funny because America wants marijuana to be illegal yet you can go to the majority of stores and buy pipes, bongs, bowls, blunts etc. It doesn’t make sense.
Ron b.
New Jersey
Well isn’t that typical presently the media is in the business of making the news not reporting the news they are indeed the fourth branch of the government.
I’ve been smoking since I was twelve, so I probably qualify for some sort of disability check, right?
its why I say that we must continue to push 21 and up, high school, at 18, with a card, cant happen…kids, with cards, cant happen…Those stories, are tough to read as I understand what it was like growing up needing it and not knowing it was there to help…but…we cant push legalization with this mothers giving their kids pot headlines that lead to this kind of stuff from a silly “study”
Unbelievable. It’s very scary when major news sources begin reporting such appalling misinformation because then you really don’t know who can trust. And to lie over something so stupid as a harmless drug like marijuana is just disgusting. Thanks for explaining these studies.
wow..our government is AWESOME! ha.. fake out. let’s cut the crap and let us humans decided for ourselves what we want to put into OUR bodies.
Why can’t One of the many news stations out there tell us about this instead of bein like every one else and jumpin off the bridge. One day all of this is gonna come to light, and the credibility of every news station that lied like this will be shot. Everyone will start goin to online sources for their daily news and we can replace all the crappy news stations with something worth-while.
Sons of Bit@&es!!
Exactly why I don’t condone anyone under a certain age medicating without consent from a physician. False prophets. It’s easy to hate what you don’t understand. It’s obvious that they now know theirs no way of turning some peoples minds as to the value of this commodity. So they go straight for the minds that are more susceptible to the propaganda and fear mongering. By going for are youth they know they can get to the parents/soon to be parents as well. Two birds one stone? They’ve given up on trying to persuade us otherwise so they go for the next generation. It’s how it’s done. They said it themselves. When you are at a stage where your brain is yet to be fully developed then you shouldn’t be experimenting with anything that will hurt the brains development. Stress? Could that harm a developing brain? Too much sugar? Am I also to believe that no kids go through depression and anxiety without experimenting with this herb or that it just increases the chances? Are children so fixated on the depression and anxiety or are we? Or are they trying to make everyone feel like when they experiment with this herb that they should feel depression and anxiety therefore it heightens the senses to that? If you can grasp the concept of moderation and self-control then all the better. Pressure is everywhere these days and people are looking for a way to reduce the pressure and stress without completely turning into a vegetable. This herb does exactly that for many people who know how it effects them personally without the propaganda. Only time will tell. What will it say?
How can you believe anybody that manipulates little Children in life or death situations to lie ,use deception and propaganda to deceive you ………
Neurobiology ; This study undoubtably has some connection by Pharma. & they say this to steer you against Cannabis usage for one reason only ………so you’ll take their drugs .
More lies …………..
IMHO another concern is that they used synthetic cannabinoids. This smacks of the same synthetic vs natural discordance as the comparison of harmful synthetic progestins vs all-natural, bio-identical progesterone or the failed “select” prostate cancer test which used synthetic dl-alpha tocopherol-acetate (which is made from a pertroleum base) vs the natural d-alpha variety which comes from vegetable oil or wheat germ. In all three of these comparisons the ends dictated the choice of unhealthy synthetic means, dooming the results and damning the test organizers.
New study shows that 100 percent of rats hit with hammers suffer severe damage to the brain…
At least my study has basis in fact…
Pretty weird how it was just a week ago that we also found out that more teens were smoking marijuana than drinking alcohol or smoking tobacco…
Same ole same ole… Fear is what they live on and it has always worked well for them. Them being those at the elite level giving the directives to promote this crap. They are invested in the status quo so anything that may infringe on that gets dealt with this way to keep the unwitting masses on their side.
Actually I didn’t even know that seritonin could even be measured.
Hey Norml, follow up the newspaper article with a one sentance. WE THE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED STATES ARE IN FULL AGREEMENT WITH THESE STUDIES AS FAR AS STOPPING ADOLESCENT USE OF MARIJUANA. THAT IS WHY WE SUPPORT THE “WE CARD” PROGRAM AND WOULD PUT FORTH ALL OUR BLESSINGS IN SUCH A PROGRAM THAT WOULD KEEP MARIJUANA OUT OF THE HANDS OF TEENAGERS. Do these dumb people not understand what “R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-L-E” marijuana use is????
This is actually something that we need to do. And do it NOW!
It’s a real shame that marijuana has gotten a bad rap since “CANABISION” began. Hopefully as more “ACTUAL” studies are done things will change. It’s only been used for medicine for at least 47,000,000 years!
That is what your tax dollars pay’s for and I guarantee you that this was pushed through by the ONDCP or one of it’s agencies and probably helped edit it too sound as bad as possible,as usual. The only thing to do is list the complete studies link to expose the editing and false innuendo for what it is,more propaganda.
[Paul Armentano responds: This preclinical study was actually performed in Canada, not the U.S. Still, the main issue isn’t so much with the methodology of the study as it is with how it was falsely reported.]
Funny this specious story should come from research at McGill. From what I understand, McGill is a BIG pothead school.
If WIN 55212-2 has a much higer affinity at the receptor site than does THC, how large of a gap would that create between data trying to be conveyed as relating directly to cannabis-derived cannabinoids and the data saying that they aren’t using natural cannabinoids in the first place? Also, I believe we need to be using the word anandamide more often as it is the true endocannabinoid.
Is it possible to make the newspaper print a retraction since they are falsifying their information?
I am sorry but I am not conversant with the policies pertaining to truth in reporting but it would seem to me that their should be some kind of legal action or something that can be done to hold these purported “news agencies” accountable for the lies and propaganda they are disseminating.
[Paul Armentano responds: Yes it is, and NORML has specifically called for the San Diego Union Tribune to issue a retraction, as there coverage was arguably the most egregiously inaccurate.]
And let’s skip the claim that by legalizing MJ society will be more able to keep this ‘dangerous’ drug from the reach of adolesence. Whereas, NOW it is easier to obtain than either alcohol or cigarettes since those who sell MJ tend not to ask for ID.
Understood the problem was with the publishing of the studies findings and the fact that it was done in Canada means what? Since the ONDCP is required to fight legalization any way necessary,borders mean nothing in hiring studies to find harm and after reading what I could find on the study,it sounded like they went into the study,trying to find harm. It is what makes their propaganda studies so easy to recognize. If the study had been to find a medical use for the chemicals and compounds used and the evidence of harm had been”discovered” during the process, then,to me,it would sound believable.
And another way to look at this information is to say;
So What! We Are trying to legalize marijuana to remove the profit from marijuana and remove the dealers that are selling to our teenagers. Legalize and regulate.
[Paul Armentano responds: NIDA provides grant funding for marijuana related research in the US and also abroad, not ONDCP.]
wow, this is effing incredible…
#26, you’re preaching to the choir buddy! have you told your prohibitionist friends?
# 20 im with u on that . its like we gotta do sign language n shit
assuming arguendo that this nonsense is true -only the more reason to legalize and regulate to prevent minors from consuming…
Well she-it, I’d probably show signs of depression too , if someone was injecting some she-it, multiple times daily in me ! Besides who the funk ever watches mslsd anyway ?
Last I checked my children weren’t RATS! They all seemed to fair well, and I don’t think I’ve done too bad either and I smoked pot as a teen.
Holy Smokes. Who wants kids smoking pot with legaliztion. Nobody. But, the people who make a living from the prohibition of marijuana would lead you to believe that it is true. I do not want kids smoking pot. I do not want kids drinking alcohol. I do not want kids smoking tobacco. The “vices” are to be used by resonsible adults (Well, so goes the resonsible adults in the tobacco industry). The whole idea is for harm reduction with the controlled and regulated policy for adult use and cultivation of marijuana.
Rev.sLeezy
Universal Life Church of the Holy Smokes
Typical nonsense and media irresponsibility…the headlines scream lies but no one is there, except for the few, to correct the lies. Sickening when you think about it; to take some rat study that has NO relation whatsoever to human use of herb..and try to insinuate something totally NOT true, as being true. It is the textbook definition of a lie, and the liars that do this are scum.
The corrupt government pays vast monies every year to so called ‘ scientists ‘ to look for negative things about pot. Never positive, always negative…or they get turned down for funding.
Since they cannot find anything really bad about pot, they have to resort to such crap..maybe a sign we are close to victory….I hope so.
HEY! The one listed as Canadian Press has a little bar for requesting correction! It actually lists grammar and FACTS! So of course I sent in the FACTS. When done reporting to them you get a thank you message :
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Isn’t the STAR like ENQUIRER? Don’t they do reports like “my baby’s daddy is an alien” with photo’s of some gray outer space alien next to it?
They can print whatever they want. Too many people know the truth now. Our movement cannot be stopped.
Paul,I believe that Dr. Taskin reported that NIDA was under the ONDCP’s directions on harm studies for marijuana and especially the one he reports that marijuana doesn’t cause cancer.
It may not have been the ONDCP drug czar that ordered this,it could have been paid for by any of several organizations or industries that stand to lose millions if marijuana is removed from schedule 1.
The fact remains that this was a study with the goal of finding harm.
We need a person with the tech knowledge to figure out how much natural marijuana would be required to give those poor baby rats the same amount of the “dangerous compounds used in the study. Then how much a teenager would have to smoke to do the possible damage.
Even IF those claims were 100% true, then it just makes even more sense for us to legalize it. As pro-marijuana supporters have been saying for years, “DEALERS DON’T ID.” So we’re allowing our children (who by the way can access marijuana much easier than alcohol) to purchase street-grade marijuana without IDs. How does that make any sense? Please, prohibitionists, QUIT discriminating against POT! That’s exactly what you’re doing. Where are the studies about 13-year-olds ingesting alcohol? We won’t stand for it though, 2010 YEAR OF CHANGE!
Evidently this “study” has to do with the written word and not actual data. The writers of these “studies” rely more on words than fact. That is the problem with so called cannabis studies by anticannabis proponents. Regulize
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Canada has nothing to do with it . Did America not have the power to take out , Marc Emery or anyone else that opposes us anywhere in the World ? Have you forgotten the 25 plus million dollar reward for Osama Bin Laden’s ass ?
I was in the service ( military ) & the only one drug the military hates is Marijuana . Meth & the other drugs the penalty is by far less severe even though these other drugs are way more damaging . During war times they don’t care too much if your snorting speed , meth , etc. but , oh no not
Marijuana .Marijuana is the Devil in the military . Why ? It is a peaceful drug that does not create aggression like the other drugs . War brings money &
power over the World . Ever hear the term……….war is Hell ? That’s right it is Hell & God’s gift to us was this plant called Cannabis to
create peace & this is one of the reasons why our Government does not want you to use Marijuana . This is because it’s a peaceful drug . A drug that does not create aggression or violence . This is why the
” Truth Doctor ” said ” I tell you in advance that when Marijuana is legal throughout the World it will be then that the World will be at peace ” .
Big Gov here to save the day again! Well, the Big Gov can eat shit! They should a thought about the dangers of substances before they let freakin alcohol, tobacco and big pharma rule our lives with the shit they put out on the legal “market” every day. God damn, 308 people died in my county in south florida from prescription drugs this last year. How may died from cannabis you assholes! When you try to put a man away for a year for stinking 20 grams of the herb! Thats less than an ounce! I don’t see a God damn shred of freakin evidence that cannabis is harmful. In fact the evidence points to the contrary. ‘Im not selling my soul to these greedy selfish pricks they can all fek off.
Thanks , Anonimous .
You’ve certainly got the Point . Satan has again deceived everyone . Canada was used to deceive you . Next Satan may use Italy or some other Country . As i said before Satan has a grip on the World & his most powerful tool Satan uses is
deception .
Satan is the master of deception .
Revelation 12 ; 9
……. ” called the Devil & Satan , who deceives the whole World “.
Matthew 24;4
” Watch out that no one deceives you for many will come in my name claimimg i am the Christ & will deceive many ” .
The closer we get to voting on November 2010 to legalize Marijuana
( in Cali.) more great & greater deceptions will
appear ( as above )& during this time many will claim to be Pro Marijuana but , will actually the Beast in disguise & deceive many .
Be aware . For have told you these things in advance .
Opps , i meant ; THE TRUTH DOCTOR ( # 44 )
THE TRUTH DOCTOR goofed again . ( I’m embarrassed )
I am 17 years of young age, and I have been smoking Cannabis since I was 13. I don’t smoke every day, but I do smoke quite a bit. I have never been depressed at all during my years if smoking Cannabis. There are times though were if I don’t smoke for awhile I get a bit pissy at times, but thats because Addiction runs in my family(Alcohol killed my great-grandfather, my grandfather, and my father drinks a 30-case every 2 days)so no matter what I would use, wether it be Nicotine or Alcohol, Cocaine or Cannabis, I will always have some sort of mental dependence on it. But, I figured that a Cannabis “addiction” would be much safer than an addiction to Nicotine or Alcohol. These studies are completlely bogus, and until I am apart of these studies, I will refuse to believe every single one of them.
We need a gathering of real people, we need to talk out problems solve them and enjoy life…
I am # 4 Anonimous
# 42 ……… missed key .
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3Q701K9Y
That’s the link to the full study if anyone is interested.
take one step foward and they push you two steps back. i can’t wait for the day that this struggle is over.
they want to li8e about brain damage THEN WHY NOT ASK THEM THE HUMAN PHYSICAL TRUTH ABOUT GOEDON, PROZAC, RISPERDAL, PAXIL, OR SERAQUIL. MOUNTAINS OF CONCRETE PROOF OF DAMAGE TO BE SEEN THERE!!!!!! MARIJUANA????!!!! YEAH, RIGHT DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH!!!!!!
HYPOCRITS AND LIARS HAVE NO PLACE TO SPEAK OF CALLING THEMSELVES MEDICAL PROFESSIONALSAND PRESS EVEN LESS!!!!!
LEGALIZE IT!!!!
So what is a parent to do?
Your teenager probably already hates you. So a monthly drug test that eventually tests positive and then sent to rehab will improve their attitude and make them love you.
And then what? Will you lock them in the basement and feed him/her through a hole in the door.
Get real. Smoking weed is one of the least dangerous activities your son or daughter can indulge in.
Reefer Madness is still alive and well but at least there are credible people like you (Paul Armentano) and groups like NORML to set the record straight. Sadly though, once the propaganda has been published it reaches it’s mark and keeps the anti-marijuana people convinced that it’s the devil’s weed.
it is sad that, something like is allowed to be shown to people who have no idea of the value of cannabis/hemp yet, those same people are not allowed to hear the other side of the story. cause part of true responsibilty is, hearing and, knowing both sides of the story before you decide……..besides, i would say as responsible cannabis users that we are, would not want our children to use cannabis until they are adults. we dont want them to use anything (cigs-ever or alcohol ) they can decide that when they have lived awhile……
Wow I cant believe they would make these claims from synthetic cannabonoids as natural non toxic cannabis.
I mean the toxicology of most of these synthetic cannabonoids are for the most part unknown. JWH-018 has been around since the early 90’s and they barely know that there is no toxicology with doses up to 10mg which 4-6mg is plenty.The conabonoid they used is even less studied.
well then again I guess I do believe it because I coulnt believe the headlines they had.
Hey there, has anyone read the new long term study just released? It a good study, this study has been on going since 1900. The study showed that our Congress could not tell the truth even if their lives depended on it. It further showed that over a short period of time those in the Congress became hooked on greed and power, that their egos became over inflated , and they believe the world is here for them to correct. They can not help or stop themselves from stealing anything and everything not bolted to concert for the good of the people. They believe they hold keys to this nation sense of right and wrong, what should and should not be. The researchers found that these greedy congresses belief system and political norms stem from their abusive and unjust power over those they work for, US! These ill behaviors of government causes a malfunction in the brains of the government worker and researchers claim there is no hope for these employees of the people.
The researchers noted that there are some major side effects to this maladaptive behavior of our government employees. They noted here just some of the side effects like; lack of honor in government, distrust of government by it’s people, gang violence from law enforcement, a decreased in education, a dysfunctional broken economy, broken infrastructures, broken families, and government murder.
The researchers said there was some good news too, they said that history and their research found that revolution was the norm when government become wayward and endanger the society they had once swore to protect and serve.
This can all be avoided if we just teach everyone in this Nation what Jury Nullification is and what it can do for the citizen who wishes to have their liberty returned. If we do not learn from the past then we will relive the past.
ONCE AGAIN I get to spend my time adding my comments to counter the Misleading Media news stories, usually I just add a link back to stories such as this one by Paul.
I WONDER HOW MUCH GOVERNMENT MONEY WENT INTO THOSE STUDIES?
This type of Refer Madness is not going to stop the tsunami that is cannabis law reform. We are caregivers here in Bozeman, MT and have seen first hand the explosive nature of cannabis law reform!! The state went from less than 1000 patients and caregivers between 2004-2009 to well over 5000 by the end of 2009!!! That is what we call overgrowing the government!!! Check us out at http://greeneacrescaregiver.wordpress.com We help patients get their cards in their home state as well as MMJ card here in Montana!! We are the ONLY state that recognizes another states MMJ card and will issue you one here!!Or, E-mail use at jlacerenza@bresnan.net to set up an appointment.
If it was legal teens wouldnt be alowed ? And they realy sould look a bit harder at the things that teens are alowed to buy like all the so called ( ENERGY )DRINKS out there loaded with things that need studys done on ?
Yea I saw the crazy headlines over the holidays. Wow kids depressed.. I am sure that’s the pot…. ya right…
Dear parents:
Tell to your little rats holidaying at home to stop smoking marijuana because if they dont it will be just a matter of time till they will look like Orvilles. Yes pot do transform your neurons into pot corn…
You can question yourself about the validity of many studies pertaining to marijuana toxicity but WHO in his right mind would question a study coming from the all too famous McGill University in Montreal and more over from its prestigious Research Institute, a world leader in psychiatry and made up of top notch scientists.Just look at the credentials of Dr.Gobbi.
What ever happened to integrity? What ever happened to reporting the WHOLE story? Too many people still believe everything reported in main stream media. i remember an old saying, “believe none of what you read, and only half of what you see”. I have consumed cannabis for 41yrs, and never has it caused depression. It did however in the beginning cause some feelings of anxiety, and paranoia. Very quickly I realized that these particular feelings were of no great consequence, and easily dismissed. It’s no big deal, and the only people who think that it is have no real first hand experience with cannabis. The biggest lie told about Marijuana is that it has NO MEDICAL VALUE. I personaly have used cannabis oil to treat, and CURE skin cancer. The AMA now wants to do more research into its medical value, but the gov keeps shoving its head deeper, and deeper into its rectal orifice.
I’m not going to advocate that minors use cannabis or any other drug because the brain is still growing until a person reaches adulthood.
Here we go again…wish we could file suit on National News along with Fair & Balanced News from cable news, as they do not report the Fair & Balanced News regarding Alcohol & Tobacco. California is either gonna slip into Pacific or Burn Up….seems that educated folk would have some logic…Hemp or Cannabis either one could help with Fire & Mudslides as a Fire Break Crop and planted along those hillsides of that expensive land which may help prevent some mudsliding.
When will we have the Freedom to Pursue Our Happiness?
Paul,
If the MSM had done just a little research on DR. Gobbi they would have seen the 2005 press release for a new drug that she discovered to replace cannabis for treatment of depression and pain. Here are some exerpts:
Dec. 13, 2005
“Researchers have discovered a new drug that raises the level of endocannabinoids — the “brain’s own cannabis” — providing antidepressant effects. The new research, published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), suggests the new drug, called URB597, could represent a safer alternative to cannabis for the treatment of pain and depression, and open the door to new and improved treatments for clinical depression, a condition that affects around 20% of Canadians.”
“”The results were similar to the effect we might expect from the use of commonly prescribed antidepressants, which are effective on only around 30% of the population,” explains Dr. Gobbi. “Our discovery strengthens the case for URB597 as a safer, non-addictive, non-psychotropic alternative to cannabis for the treatment of pain and depression and provides hope for the development of an alternate line of antidepressants, with a wider range of effectiveness.”
Cannabis has been known for its antidepressant and pain-relief effects for many years, but the addictive nature and general health concerns of cannabis use make this drug far from ideal as a medical treatment. The active ingredient in cannabis — THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) — stimulates cannabinoid receptors.”
Here is the link to the news release:http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/news/item/?item_id=17777
Dr. Gobbi obviously has a major conflict of interest when she criticizes cannabis use by anyone. She is working on developing pharmacouticals to replace cannabis for the treatment of depression at the same time she is promoting the theory that natural cannabis causes depression. You can’t have it both ways. Her own news release from 2005 clearly states that cannabis is an effective treatment for depression (which I know from experience to be true) but as her miracle “better than pot” pharmacoutical comes closer to the market she attacks natural cannabis. I would love to see an honest MSM report on the people who come out with this stream of questionable “research” that demonizes an effective un-pattendable herb.
[Paul Armentano responds: Thanks for this additional info, which I initially read in your Huff Po post. Your thoughts re: Dr. Gobbi’s potential conflict of interest echo mine, and I will be sure to highlight these when/if I write on this topic again.]
Collusion is when knowingly false statements enable injustices to persist to exist. This are more than lies – they are criminal acts done with intent.
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See also:
Collusion is an agreement, usually secretive, which occurs between two or more persons to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading, or defrauding others of their legal rights, or to obtain an objective forbidden by law typically by defrauding or gaining an unfair advantage. It is an agreement among firms to divide the market, set prices, or limit production.
It can involve “wage fixing, kickbacks, or misrepresenting the independence of the relationship between the colluding parties.”All acts affected by collusion are considered void.
Does this sound familiar? Most OPP (“collusion-enforcement”)officers don’t know what collusion is–they think it’s an optional–or is it now mandatory–insurance sham. This is why nothing seemed to happen-until now.
Now the public learns about collusion, and that this system is not right. “Considered void”. This is not the mind of a pot head, but the foundation upon which psychotic corporations have enslaved us with mind altering / addictive / deadly poisons.
As we awaken and form social networks, it becomes clear that the jig is up. More Facebook users = Less FOXes in the hen house. CBC and state-controlled media whores are being chanted down.
The study is just more junk science bought and paid for by prohibitionists. Two of the articles, EmaxHealth and UPI.com didn’t mention the study was done on rats at all, from what I can see, and the other linked articles had that information buried.
Anti-cannabis forces use research and media organizations as organs of prohibitionist government along the lines of totalitarian governments such as former East Germany. Noam Chomsky wrote very well about how western democratic governments use their power to fund research via grants and non-governmental political groups, and how they use control of the airwaves, access to briefings, press releases, anti-trust legislation, public service announcement funding and the like to influence public opinion–truth be damned.
Cannabis is on its way to becoming legal in the not-too-distant future. A lot of people are making a lot of money off of marijuana being illegal, and they need time to position themselves in order to keep filling their pockets once they can no longer cow the American people into keeping it illegal. It’s more than just corrupt cops and border officials.
The target time for full legalization is being coordinated to coincide with the U.S. troop reductions out of Afghanistan, at which time the U.S. has to have in place the gestalt for the global trade of cannabis profits in dollars and control of both the cannabis market in Afghanistan and the oil markets in the Middle East. Afghani farmers will be well-paid for their cannabis products compared to now, and the risk to grow poppies too great, and thus the Taliban and al Quaida will not have as much support, nor the tribal warlords. The central governments, swayed by western democracies will have their way. This will pave the road to a more stable and modern democratic Middle East. Nation-building military and NGOs will still have to be there, but the revenue stream of the countries to pay for their own modernization will come above ground instead of out of the pockets of U.S. taxpayers without any kind of quid pro quo. At least then Americans and the rest of the world alike can appreciate some decent Afghan hash or other cannabis products, along with others from around the world.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention Paul. I grew up in San Diego, have been gone for 17 years now, and the changes in the city leaders mindset over cannabis are nuts. You’d think they’d want to be the first city in California to legalize and support regulation because of the close proximity to Mexico.
On CNN today, Kyra Phillips did a short story on a Drug Saint in Mexico called Malvede. (not sure of spelling). It’s supposed to be on Facebook. The prayer at the site goes something like: Please protect us Malvede from the Feds and don’t let us get busted with more than 5 grams of pot.
I don’t do Facebook anymore so someone else will have to check it out.
Thanks for doin what you do Paul. The truth will out.
anyone got a phone number for the sandeigo tribune phone jam their ass
Ok. I get it. They dont actually measure the serotonin levels, they presume that’s what’s going on due to behavior. Not that that changes things either way but it clears things up for me a bit. I was always told brain chemicals couldn’t be directly measured. I guess I’m a little slow on the reading comprehension thing, huh?
#68 said that the good Dr. is pushing a cannabis replacement drug and some one else said it was a synthetic cannabinoid used in the test….could it be the one she’s pushing that was used in the test?
Chant ’em down.
Easy target, pick on the pot. The children prescribed the pharma pills (the anti hyper and add kind) are in more danger ingesting that crap. hmmm, it is about the money. To think, the drug dealing doctors prescribing these meds and the insurance companies paying for these meds, then the kids selling these meds in school so their friends can catch ‘a very dangerous buzz’ My 17 year old told me this. It’s scary to think my kid is exposed to this threat. Listen to the children, I have read some comments of these kids that are forced these meds and they don’t like the way they feel on them. Evil parents to do that to your children – I say. I also heard that if your kid is on Ridilan you can collect social security benefits. Case worker at the welfare office told me that. Wow
And the pain pill problem-could not believe it when I met some folks getting prescribed over 100 pills a month and then they sell them. Nice profit for them since their insurance paid for the pills.
Marijuana addictive? nope, cigarettes, oh yeah and it sucks. I think booze is addictive too but I’m not of that mindset. Herbs are MY choice!
Feed your kids Ritalin instead.
As I have said all this year, JURY NULLIFICATION! It is the key to getting our liberty back. It is this act that the citizens can use to rule over or overrule their wayward government agents/employees. We/employers must teach this important American concept to every American, young and old alike, if we wish to free those held unujustly by our wayward government.
We as a society or sub-society must force this wayward government to chance to the will of the people. we can do this peacefully by taking our seeds that we throw in the trash and plant them in the face of this wayward government. By passively and peacefully planting your hemp seed in the face of the unjust will help bring this issue to a head. Media will not be able to ignor the tens of thousands of plants popping up on main street, court house lawns, and other government held property sitting in plain view.
After this issue is pushed into the main media focus by the two acts listed above we as a sub-culture in this society file a Class Action Writ and a Class Action Title 42 1983-1986 in every Federal Judicial District in the United States. It will not matter if we win these cases or not, we will load down the Court System forcing them into open debate and Jury held cases over this Constructive Fraud placed on the people when our Congress unlawfully abrogated our liberty and misunderstood our Constitution.
2010 should be the year we set the goal of freeing our brothers and sisters from these unjust acts of government. 2010 should be the year we set to push harder and faster upon the branches of government to correct this injustice.
2010 is the Year of Jury Nullification on Cannabis. This should be the year we free ourselves from the tyrants who act so unjust and lie about the facts.
Please send the word out this New Years, let the Americans know that the change is now, this coming year, no more tomarrows, it is today. Lets make the New Years resolution to be not for ourselves but for those unjustly held in our prison system. This year we as a sub-culture of American Society will make space in our overcrowded prison systems by freeing all those unjustly held for their part in the unlawful Cannabis laws.
Lets make some noise, lets charge down the tracks with the truth in one hand and our Constitution in the other.
Just think about what I have said here, we can bring this issue to a much needed close and we can and will have our liberty as we define it not how the wayward government defines it. Are you out there? Do you hear this cry for change? Then let US act as one voice and change this situation once and for ALL of US.
Stomped On My Rights is a Son of Liberty and will settle for nothing less.
The time is TODAY!
i was smokin herb when i was fifteen an, yea, i had a little depression…….but, i had a bunch more depression before i ever used it! yea, i helped fer sure….it was a hard time in my early life. they can never tell me any different….
iam a peace time veteran and i smoke all the time.im lucky that no war brokeout when i was playing army.i was in the army reserse
All I know is the media is infamous for making things sound better or worse than they really are and for anybody to take everything they say literally is not thinking critically. I did a psychological research study my senior year of college that examined the motives behind marijuana use in a clinical and college sample. I found that 77% of the clinical adults and 69% of the college adults said they used marijuana to relax and decrease anxious feelings. These results were outstanding to me, especially being I did this study in ND where smoking marijuana is a big deal, and will get the book thrown at you for any amount.
i suffered from anxiety and deprssion at 1 point in my earlier life…once i quit smoking cigarettes and drinking so much alcohol, and just strictly stuck to smoking pot…i have become much more relaxed in my skin…thats my expierence. Maybe you can post that in the medical journals.
Don’t legalize it! After all, we don’t want a bunch of depressed rats running around do we? Think of the cost of sending all those rats to counseling.
How exactly can you tell if a rat is depressed.
Depressed rats are a huge problem in Australia.
I have pet rats and I have always read on breeding web pages that pot it harmful to rodents. I think they went into this study knowing this. And if so, then they harmed animals that did not need to be used for this study. They should have chosen an animal that is closely related to humans on an evolutionary scale.
I have a friend who has crones disease (bowel obstruction that caused toxic death of a family member). Marijuana helped her tremendously with her appetite and ability to hold food down. When her local PD found a roach in her car she was arrested. She’s out now, in a court ordered drug treatment and at a dangerously low weight; yet unable to get back to her regular healthy weight. In California u can go to certain stores and buy it for personal consumption.Let’s help support the legalization of marijuana.