The AHA gets a large chunk of money from the fedrool gumt. I am sure they will stay on the gumt's bandwagon...
...mice are verrrry creative!
Posted on 04/07/2005 9:49:23 AM PDT by headsonpikes
THE active ingredient in cannabis protects arteries against harmful changes that lead to strokes and heart attacks, new research suggests. THC, or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, is known to affect the brain and make cannabis-users “high”. The new research shows that it also has an influence on blood vessels.
A study of mice revealed that the compound blocks the process of inflammation, which is largely responsible for the narrowing of arteries.
Inflammation combines with fatty deposits to produce obstructive “plaques”, a condition known as atherosclerosis. These can block arteries to the heart, causing angina and heart attacks, or to the brain, leading to strokes. Atherosclerosis is the primary cause of heart disease and stroke in the Western world, accounting for up to half the deaths from both conditions.
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Any local health food store should have it, even some upscale grocery stores. Visit www.pomwonderful.com, maybe they have some distributor information.
The AHA gets a large chunk of money from the fedrool gumt. I am sure they will stay on the gumt's bandwagon...
...mice are verrrry creative!
Case whose nonexistence supports my point: Many people are willing to pay a premium to get their medication pure and at known doseage, so developers of marijauna-derived medicines can expect a market for their product.
"poor man's medicine"
Doctors are either from the upper class or graduate with massive debt.
A debt which is selectively attained but, later passed on to the masses.
They are an elitist unelected oligarchy charged with determining what
each individual may grow or ingest despite the fact that medicine today
is still more of an art than a science. If you have any doubts then look
up any skin disease. If they have no clue as to the origin of almost any
disease which affects the largest organ in the body then they have no clue.
"A wise man ought to realize that health is the most valuable possession and learn how to treat his illnesses by his own judgement.
Hippocrates - A regimen for Health circa 500 B.C.
Help restore the freedom our forefathers envisioned by calling for the end of this witch hunt we call the war on drugs. Release us from perpetual slavery to the pharaceutical corporations and wealthy butchers.
Right, and so the answer to "change the law according to the methods proscribed by the Constitution", not to change it judge what essentially nothing more than judicial fiat.
Judicial fiat is what conservatives have always railed against the Left for. The judges in Schiavo upheld the law as written and precedent.
If conservatives want to be known as defenders of the Constitution, they need to defend it even when it doesn't necessarily work for them.
The Law should not be like the bed of Procrustes, to whose dimensions mere humans are stretched or trimmed to fit!
As they say, bad cases make bad law.
If you have bad cases illustrate bad law, then change the law in the legislature, not the judiciary. Judiciaries can only make rulings and set precedent which *become* law. Legislatures ought to corner that market.
Judges, in principle, cannot *change* the law. *Juries* are the ones who can determine whether or not a law applies or that a person ought to be punished, and all that takes place at a trial.
The power is supposed to be in the *jury*, not the *judge*. The judge is like an administrator, to be sure there is due process and that the law is followed before and at trial.
And *legislatures* are responsible for *changing* bad laws once they are discovered to be so.
In the absence of a human jury, I'd expect a human judge to exercise that moral judgment.
So the bad news is, marijuana will trigger schizophrenia; the good news is, you'll live longer?
The good news is that there may be an effective treatment for arterial plaque; the bad news is you'll get busted if you use it.
A cynic might accuse you of cherrypicking your scientific studies to fit your bias.
Government-funded science, and its fruits, are contaminated.
I no more expect 'science' from these people than I expect symphonies from swine.
But once a judge has to do so over and over and over... or once that people begin to notice millions of convicts who've been ludicrously sentenced for insignificant crimes... THEN the legislature should move in and do the right thing.
It's *not* the judiciaries job to *make* or *break* laws. Yeah, I'm strict as heck on that point, but it is rather foundational to our system of governemnt. Responsibility lies with the people and their elected representatives to make the changes necessary to preserve liberty and life.
I understand your argument that the judiciary should do something, but they can only do so much. The last thing we need in this country is a wizzing contest between branches over who has the biggest johnson.
OH Wooooow man! I'm hip.
You really think so?
Oh yeah man.....what?
Put down the bong and step away from your computer!
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