Because its legislators are some kind of a "non-thinking" class, Philippines is behind in the race in Marijuana food research.
Reaction to the article titled: Hemp Seeds: A Superfood You Need In Your Diet
Showing posts with label Marijuana Decriminalization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marijuana Decriminalization. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Collection of Marijuana References
Below are the reference materials in the internet that I collected in preparation for the Marijuana Debate.
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Marijuana doy com contains news, forum, pics, shop, cooking, cultivation, seeds, smoke shop directory, how to pass drug test, etc. Read more at http://www.marijuana.com/
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The Marijuana Conspiracy - The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal by Doug Yurchey, June 15, 2005. MARIJUANA is DANGEROUS. Pot is NOT harmful to the human body or mind. Marijuana does NOT pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana is very much a danger to the oil companies, alcohol, tobacco industries and a large number of chemical corporations. Various big businesses, with plenty of dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from the people. Read more at
http://www.illuminati-news.com/marijuana-conspiracy.htm
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NIDA InfoFacts: Marijuana. Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States. It is a dry, shredded green and brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves derived from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. The main active chemical in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol; THC for short. Read more at http://drugabuse.gov/infofacts/marijuana.html#anchor
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The Health Effects of Marijuana on Humans by Marc Anderson, June, 1992. Marijuana has been used as a drug since the beginning of time, yet there are still many mysteries about its health effects on humans. Marijuana, or cannabis sativa, is a preparation of the crushed flowers and buds of female hemp plant. The existence of the plant has been reported as early as 1500-1200 BC. in China, and cannabis has been described as an analgesic as early as 200 AD (Walton, 1938). Since then, an overwhelming number of studies have attempted to explain the physical and psychological effects of cannabis on humans. Read more at http://www.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Drugs/THC/Health/mj.physiology.html
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Marijuana doy com contains news, forum, pics, shop, cooking, cultivation, seeds, smoke shop directory, how to pass drug test, etc. Read more at http://www.marijuana.com/
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The Marijuana Conspiracy - The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal by Doug Yurchey, June 15, 2005. MARIJUANA is DANGEROUS. Pot is NOT harmful to the human body or mind. Marijuana does NOT pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana is very much a danger to the oil companies, alcohol, tobacco industries and a large number of chemical corporations. Various big businesses, with plenty of dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from the people. Read more at
http://www.illuminati-news.com/marijuana-conspiracy.htm
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NIDA InfoFacts: Marijuana. Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States. It is a dry, shredded green and brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves derived from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. The main active chemical in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol; THC for short. Read more at http://drugabuse.gov/infofacts/marijuana.html#anchor
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The Health Effects of Marijuana on Humans by Marc Anderson, June, 1992. Marijuana has been used as a drug since the beginning of time, yet there are still many mysteries about its health effects on humans. Marijuana, or cannabis sativa, is a preparation of the crushed flowers and buds of female hemp plant. The existence of the plant has been reported as early as 1500-1200 BC. in China, and cannabis has been described as an analgesic as early as 200 AD (Walton, 1938). Since then, an overwhelming number of studies have attempted to explain the physical and psychological effects of cannabis on humans. Read more at http://www.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Drugs/THC/Health/mj.physiology.html
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Marijuana Decriminalization Advocacy International
To ALL (Global):Today, I have created an open Facebook Group titled Marijuana Decriminalization Advocacy International.
The advocacy is simple. Marijuana have medical uses. It is just a grass, it is organic, it is natural, it cheap to produce it in the backyard. Legalizing it will promote economic efficiency as it improves peoples access to herbal remedies to PAIN and other illness. It is also a good substitute to alcohol when it comes to recreation purposes.
We understand that there are insisting arguments on the negative effect of marijuana if taken in excessive amounts, just like cholesterol, salt, sugar, carbon dioxide. On this grounds, we go for regulation measures. However, we should bear in mind that we cannot regulate something that is not legalized. Therefore, we have to decriminalize it first.
Let's support the call for Marijuana Decriminalization ON THE POLICY ADVOCACY ONLY. Please join this group and invite others who share the same sentiment. Everyone is also encouraged to post here some pictures, images, and articles that are supportive of the MArijuana Decriminalization Advocacy.
While the policy is still on the debate, we encourage people to obey, and law enforcement to implement, existing laws governing marijuana production, possession, and consumption.
Thank you.
JOHN PETALCORIN
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I dedicate this blog to my FB friends who celebrate their birthdays today.
Chris Evert Barbero, Jose Angelo Robles, Kathleen Yangson, Lorlene Theresa Alforque Gonzales, Marjz Remollo, Rubyrissa Remollo
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Drug Control Advocacy Debating Arguments
Illegal drugs means income and employment for the Supply Side. Crimes are committed by the Demand Side because of the effect of drug on the mental state of the individual which blocks his sense of moral inhibitions. But why are laws made in such an odd way that punishment on the Supply Side is much more cruel than on the Demand Side?
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My college thesis in University of the Philippines is The Market Structure of Prohibitted Drugs (BS Economics 1997, UPLB). I figured out that increasing the punishment for Suppliers will increase the price of the drug. Because of the addiction-effect, the demand curve of the drug is inelastic, hence, no matter how the price will increase, the buyer will still find a way to get it. With budget constraint, the user has to level up his income sources and this lead to the onset of income-generating crimes such as drug pushing, swindling, theft, robbery. I was able to prove in theory and data that increasing the punishment on the supply side will increase crimes committed by the demand side. In the end, to eradicate the illegal drug market, I was proposing to increase the punishment on the demand side to create an irreconcilable price gap between the willingness to sell and willingness to buy.
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Alex P. Vidal : In Mexico, two drug cartels--the Sinaloa and Juarez-- have been tearing each other apart trying to eliminate each other in bloody drug wars that have escalated in the United States. The police are no match to these drug cartels and they have police chiefs, judges, prosecutors, mayors and governors in their payroll. Those who refused to be bribed are killed together with their families.
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RESPONSE: In the Philippines, there is no war among drug-suppliers. There is no such thing as competition-relatad crimes. We only have demand-side crimes here.
In the case of America, I think George Soros' twin ideas are brilliant and workable, which are to (1) legalize the recreational use and small-scale cultivation of marijuana and (2) invest in effective education.
But take note, this twin ideas has to work together simultaneously. It will be a disaster if you legalize it and stop investing in education.
In the Philippines, I believe the illegalization will have to remain the same, but we have to increase punishment and education on the demand side.
I just figured out that the Marijuana Legalization debate and Jueteng Legalization debate follows the same arguments.
Ang marijuana ang pinaka magaling na herbal plant na cheap i-grow and more effective substitute than any pain killer drugs. It's been used for thousands of years. Naputol lang ang use nyan sa early 1900s for some reason na walang kwenta. Ang ayaw ko lang sa Marijuana ay pag ini-smoke yan kasi meron din nicotine yan. Meron kasi akong Anti-Smoking Advocacy na masasagasaan nyan, pag ini-smoke lang ha.
Marijuana have been used by mankind for thousands of years. In the early 1900, it took them 20 years to brainwash the mind of the people into believing that marijuana is addictive and makes people crazy criminals. When we decriminalize it now, I think it will also take us 20 years to remove the stigma.
If you have tried drinking a bottle of beer, marijuana gives the same effect at a cheaper cost, at a least fattening result. You can't grow beer in your backyard, you can't make pain-reliever medicines in your kitchen; but with a marijuana in a pot in your backyard, it's like having access to instant beer and pain-reliever.
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My college thesis in University of the Philippines is The Market Structure of Prohibitted Drugs (BS Economics 1997, UPLB). I figured out that increasing the punishment for Suppliers will increase the price of the drug. Because of the addiction-effect, the demand curve of the drug is inelastic, hence, no matter how the price will increase, the buyer will still find a way to get it. With budget constraint, the user has to level up his income sources and this lead to the onset of income-generating crimes such as drug pushing, swindling, theft, robbery. I was able to prove in theory and data that increasing the punishment on the supply side will increase crimes committed by the demand side. In the end, to eradicate the illegal drug market, I was proposing to increase the punishment on the demand side to create an irreconcilable price gap between the willingness to sell and willingness to buy.
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Alex P. Vidal : In Mexico, two drug cartels--the Sinaloa and Juarez-- have been tearing each other apart trying to eliminate each other in bloody drug wars that have escalated in the United States. The police are no match to these drug cartels and they have police chiefs, judges, prosecutors, mayors and governors in their payroll. Those who refused to be bribed are killed together with their families.
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RESPONSE: In the Philippines, there is no war among drug-suppliers. There is no such thing as competition-relatad crimes. We only have demand-side crimes here.
In the case of America, I think George Soros' twin ideas are brilliant and workable, which are to (1) legalize the recreational use and small-scale cultivation of marijuana and (2) invest in effective education.
But take note, this twin ideas has to work together simultaneously. It will be a disaster if you legalize it and stop investing in education.
In the Philippines, I believe the illegalization will have to remain the same, but we have to increase punishment and education on the demand side.
I just figured out that the Marijuana Legalization debate and Jueteng Legalization debate follows the same arguments.
Ang marijuana ang pinaka magaling na herbal plant na cheap i-grow and more effective substitute than any pain killer drugs. It's been used for thousands of years. Naputol lang ang use nyan sa early 1900s for some reason na walang kwenta. Ang ayaw ko lang sa Marijuana ay pag ini-smoke yan kasi meron din nicotine yan. Meron kasi akong Anti-Smoking Advocacy na masasagasaan nyan, pag ini-smoke lang ha.
Marijuana have been used by mankind for thousands of years. In the early 1900, it took them 20 years to brainwash the mind of the people into believing that marijuana is addictive and makes people crazy criminals. When we decriminalize it now, I think it will also take us 20 years to remove the stigma.
If you have tried drinking a bottle of beer, marijuana gives the same effect at a cheaper cost, at a least fattening result. You can't grow beer in your backyard, you can't make pain-reliever medicines in your kitchen; but with a marijuana in a pot in your backyard, it's like having access to instant beer and pain-reliever.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Advocacy for Marijuana Legalization
Here is a call for advocacy for Marijuana Legalization from billionnaire global philantropist George Soros. I am yet to study the applicability of this advocacy in the Philippines. There is also an interesting article titled The Marijuana Conspiracy - The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal by Doug Yurchey on June 15, 2005.
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CALL FOR ADVOCACY
TO: JOHN REMOLLO PETALCORIN (Philippines)
DATE: 10/27/2010
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
Earlier today George Soros made a contribution of $1 million to support passage of California's Proposition 19, which would legalize the recreational use and small scale cultivation of marijuana. He explains why in the essay below, published in today's Wall Street Journal. While public opinion polls indicates the measure is unlikely to pass, Mr. Soros felt it was important to raise the visibility of the issue both in California and nationally.
All best,
Michael Vachon
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WHY I SUPPORT LEGAL MARIJUANA
We should invest in effective education rather than ineffective arrest and incarceration.
By George Soros
Wall Street Journal, October 26, 2010
Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good. The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.
Law enforcement agencies today spend many billions of taxpayer dollars annually trying to enforce this unenforceable prohibition. The roughly 750,000 arrests they make each year for possession of small amounts of marijuana represent more than 40% of all drug arrests.
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. It also would reduce the crime, violence and corruption associated with drug markets, and the violations of civil liberties and human rights that occur when large numbers of otherwise law-abiding citizens are subject to arrest. Police could focus on serious crime instead.
The racial inequities that are part and parcel of marijuana enforcement policies cannot be ignored. African-Americans are no more likely than other Americans to use marijuana but they are three, five or even 10 times more likely--depending on the city--to be arrested for possessing marijuana. I agree with Alice Huffman, president of the California NAACP, when she says that being caught up in the criminal justice system does more harm to young people than marijuana itself. Giving millions of young Americans a permanent drug arrest record that may follow them for life serves no one's interests.
Racial prejudice also helps explain the origins of marijuana prohibition. When California and other U.S. states first decided (between 1915 and 1933) to criminalize marijuana, the principal motivations were not grounded in science or public health but rather in prejudice and discrimination against immigrants from Mexico who reputedly smoked the "killer weed."
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade--and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity. Some claim that they would only move into other illicit enterprises, but they are more likely to be weakened by being deprived of the easy profits they can earn with marijuana.
This was just one reason the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy--chaired by three distinguished former presidents, Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, César Gaviria of Colombia and Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico--included marijuana decriminalization among their recommendations for reforming drug policies in the Americas.
Like many parents and grandparents, I am worried about young people getting into trouble with marijuana and other drugs. The best solution, however, is honest and effective drug education. One survey after another indicates that teenagers have better access than most adults to marijuana--and often other drugs as well--and find it easier to buy marijuana than alcohol. Legalizing marijuana may make it easier for adults to buy marijuana, but it can hardly make it any more accessible to young people. I'd much rather invest in effective education than ineffective arrest and incarceration.
California's Proposition 19, which would legalize the recreational use and small-scale cultivation of marijuana, wouldn't solve all the problems connected with the drug. But it would represent a major step forward, and its deficiencies can be corrected on the basis of experience. Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws. And just as California provided national leadership in 1996 by becoming the first state to legalize the medical use of marijuana, so it has an opportunity once again to lead the nation.
In many respects, of course, Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on Election Day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.
These are the reasons I have decided to support Proposition 19 and invite others to do so.
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I dedicate this blog to my FB friends who celebrate their birthdays today.
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CALL FOR ADVOCACY
TO: JOHN REMOLLO PETALCORIN (Philippines)
DATE: 10/27/2010
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
Earlier today George Soros made a contribution of $1 million to support passage of California's Proposition 19, which would legalize the recreational use and small scale cultivation of marijuana. He explains why in the essay below, published in today's Wall Street Journal. While public opinion polls indicates the measure is unlikely to pass, Mr. Soros felt it was important to raise the visibility of the issue both in California and nationally.
All best,
Michael Vachon
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WHY I SUPPORT LEGAL MARIJUANA
We should invest in effective education rather than ineffective arrest and incarceration.
By George Soros
Wall Street Journal, October 26, 2010
Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good. The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.
Law enforcement agencies today spend many billions of taxpayer dollars annually trying to enforce this unenforceable prohibition. The roughly 750,000 arrests they make each year for possession of small amounts of marijuana represent more than 40% of all drug arrests.
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. It also would reduce the crime, violence and corruption associated with drug markets, and the violations of civil liberties and human rights that occur when large numbers of otherwise law-abiding citizens are subject to arrest. Police could focus on serious crime instead.
The racial inequities that are part and parcel of marijuana enforcement policies cannot be ignored. African-Americans are no more likely than other Americans to use marijuana but they are three, five or even 10 times more likely--depending on the city--to be arrested for possessing marijuana. I agree with Alice Huffman, president of the California NAACP, when she says that being caught up in the criminal justice system does more harm to young people than marijuana itself. Giving millions of young Americans a permanent drug arrest record that may follow them for life serves no one's interests.
Racial prejudice also helps explain the origins of marijuana prohibition. When California and other U.S. states first decided (between 1915 and 1933) to criminalize marijuana, the principal motivations were not grounded in science or public health but rather in prejudice and discrimination against immigrants from Mexico who reputedly smoked the "killer weed."
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade--and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity. Some claim that they would only move into other illicit enterprises, but they are more likely to be weakened by being deprived of the easy profits they can earn with marijuana.
This was just one reason the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy--chaired by three distinguished former presidents, Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, César Gaviria of Colombia and Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico--included marijuana decriminalization among their recommendations for reforming drug policies in the Americas.
Like many parents and grandparents, I am worried about young people getting into trouble with marijuana and other drugs. The best solution, however, is honest and effective drug education. One survey after another indicates that teenagers have better access than most adults to marijuana--and often other drugs as well--and find it easier to buy marijuana than alcohol. Legalizing marijuana may make it easier for adults to buy marijuana, but it can hardly make it any more accessible to young people. I'd much rather invest in effective education than ineffective arrest and incarceration.
California's Proposition 19, which would legalize the recreational use and small-scale cultivation of marijuana, wouldn't solve all the problems connected with the drug. But it would represent a major step forward, and its deficiencies can be corrected on the basis of experience. Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws. And just as California provided national leadership in 1996 by becoming the first state to legalize the medical use of marijuana, so it has an opportunity once again to lead the nation.
In many respects, of course, Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on Election Day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.
These are the reasons I have decided to support Proposition 19 and invite others to do so.
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I dedicate this blog to my FB friends who celebrate their birthdays today.
Catherine Estrada, Danmel Gabriel, Errol Irene Villaroya, Jonard Bilo, Ryan Remollo
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Adrian Miguel Ruiz, Carlo Audrey Chaves, Chryselyn Joy Carvajal, Deo Antonio D. Llamas, Edjji Remollo, Ermar Madronio, Gere Remollo, Katherine Carino Martirez, Protacio Dela Cuesta, Rencel Joy Sol, Reyson London, Zelaii Bonita
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Adrian Miguel Ruiz, Carlo Audrey Chaves, Chryselyn Joy Carvajal, Deo Antonio D. Llamas, Edjji Remollo, Ermar Madronio, Gere Remollo, Katherine Carino Martirez, Protacio Dela Cuesta, Rencel Joy Sol, Reyson London, Zelaii Bonita
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