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Post by musik on Apr 26, 2024 15:50:58 GMT
Do you know how the situation is in Russia by any chance? Is cannabis decriminalised? Haven't looked tbh, had a mate that went there years ago for a hangliding comp and he came back saying it was growing wild everywhere, it was probably hemp but if they tolerate that growing I doubt they're too worried about weed in general. Since not a few expect to be under russian flag during our lifetime ...
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Post by musik on Apr 26, 2024 18:11:24 GMT
I had to check, that's me, I am just like that ... 🤠
In Russia possession and use of cannabis is seen as a very serious crime. I don't know what it means, perhaps 10 or 20 years in prison?
In comparison, in Japan possession can mean 5 years in prison and 7 years if you're seen using it. Research about cannabis is strictly forbidden.
It means if we'll see more of the russian ships already seen in our harbours and troops marching in, the situation for cannabis users will be even worse.
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Post by musik on Apr 26, 2024 20:07:49 GMT
On request. Where do the Swedish politicians get their info from?
Moilanen, chief of the Drug Politic Center says:
Legalization doesn't stop the gangs! The experiences of the countries that have legalized cannabis are not good. The UN agency INCB devotes an entire chapter to the consequences of cannabis legalization in its latest annual report. It shows that the use of cannabis has increased in all countries and regions that have legalized it. Cannabis-related health problems are also on the rise, and it is pointed out that a fast-growing cannabis industry is developing and marketing products to attract young people while devoting significant resources to lobbying for reduced control.
The INCB also points out that legalization has not led to the disappearance of the illegal actors either. In Canada, criminal gangs still control close to half the market of what it was at the time of legalization. In California, the authorities today have a bigger problem with organized crime around cannabis than they did before - it is simply easier for criminals to operate in a legalized environment. Legalizing cannabis in Germany would make it easier for criminal groups in Europe. This is the opposite of what Sweden needs right now.
Source: Altinget.se
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Post by elystokie on Apr 26, 2024 20:20:39 GMT
On request. Where do the Swedish politicians get their info from? Moilanen, chief of the Drug Politic Center says: Legalization doesn't stop the gangs! The experiences of the countries that have legalized cannabis are not good. The UN agency INCB devotes an entire chapter to the consequences of cannabis legalization in its latest annual report. It shows that the use of cannabis has increased in all countries and regions that have legalized it. Cannabis-related health problems are also on the rise, and it is pointed out that a fast-growing cannabis industry is developing and marketing products to attract young people while devoting significant resources to lobbying for reduced control. The INCB also points out that legalization has not led to the disappearance of the illegal actors either. In Canada, criminal gangs still control close to half the market of what it was at the time of legalization. In California, the authorities today have a bigger problem with organized crime around cannabis than they did before - it is simply easier for criminals to operate in a legalized environment. Legalizing cannabis in Germany would make it easier for criminal groups in Europe. This is the opposite of what Sweden needs right now. Source: Altinget.se And yet statistics show that people live happier, longer, healthier lives in states that have legalised cannabis than states that haven't. Why would someone advocate people living shorter, less happy and less healthy lives? It's completely nonsensical 🤷🏻 Check out the endocannabinoid system, please, it might explain a lot.
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Post by musik on Apr 26, 2024 20:24:23 GMT
On request. Where do the Swedish politicians get their info from? Moilanen, chief of the Drug Politic Center says: Legalization doesn't stop the gangs! The experiences of the countries that have legalized cannabis are not good. The UN agency INCB devotes an entire chapter to the consequences of cannabis legalization in its latest annual report. It shows that the use of cannabis has increased in all countries and regions that have legalized it. Cannabis-related health problems are also on the rise, and it is pointed out that a fast-growing cannabis industry is developing and marketing products to attract young people while devoting significant resources to lobbying for reduced control. The INCB also points out that legalization has not led to the disappearance of the illegal actors either. In Canada, criminal gangs still control close to half the market of what it was at the time of legalization. In California, the authorities today have a bigger problem with organized crime around cannabis than they did before - it is simply easier for criminals to operate in a legalized environment. Legalizing cannabis in Germany would make it easier for criminal groups in Europe. This is the opposite of what Sweden needs right now. Source: Altinget.se And yet statistics show that people live happier, longer, healthier lives in states that have legalised cannabis than states that haven't. Why would someone advocate people living shorter, less happy and less healthy lives? It's completely nonsensical 🤷🏻 Check out the endocannabinoid system, please, it might explain a lot. Conclusion: You say Good Health They say Bad Health
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Post by elystokie on Apr 26, 2024 20:34:00 GMT
And yet statistics show that people live happier, longer, healthier lives in states that have legalised cannabis than states that haven't. Why would someone advocate people living shorter, less happy and less healthy lives? It's completely nonsensical 🤷🏻 Check out the endocannabinoid system, please, it might explain a lot. Conclusion: You say Good Health They say Bad Health So maybe do your own research? As I say, maybe investigate the endocannabinoid system? It is the most important system in the body after all. Or show me the evidence to back up what you (or they) are saying?
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Apr 26, 2024 20:34:58 GMT
On request. Where do the Swedish politicians get their info from? Moilanen, chief of the Drug Politic Center says: Legalization doesn't stop the gangs! The experiences of the countries that have legalized cannabis are not good. The UN agency INCB devotes an entire chapter to the consequences of cannabis legalization in its latest annual report. It shows that the use of cannabis has increased in all countries and regions that have legalized it. Cannabis-related health problems are also on the rise, and it is pointed out that a fast-growing cannabis industry is developing and marketing products to attract young people while devoting significant resources to lobbying for reduced control. The INCB also points out that legalization has not led to the disappearance of the illegal actors either. In Canada, criminal gangs still control close to half the market of what it was at the time of legalization. In California, the authorities today have a bigger problem with organized crime around cannabis than they did before - it is simply easier for criminals to operate in a legalized environment. Legalizing cannabis in Germany would make it easier for criminal groups in Europe. This is the opposite of what Sweden needs right now. Source: Altinget.se And yet statistics show that people live happier, longer, healthier lives in states that have legalised cannabis than states that haven't. Why would someone advocate people living shorter, less happy and less healthy lives? It's completely nonsensical 🤷🏻 Check out the endocannabinoid system, please, it might explain a lot. No western government wants their citizens to live longer
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Post by elystokie on Apr 26, 2024 20:50:48 GMT
And yet statistics show that people live happier, longer, healthier lives in states that have legalised cannabis than states that haven't. Why would someone advocate people living shorter, less happy and less healthy lives? It's completely nonsensical 🤷🏻 Check out the endocannabinoid system, please, it might explain a lot. No western government wants their citizens to live longer Some people appear to want to assist them in that quest 🤷🏻
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Post by musik on Apr 26, 2024 22:02:43 GMT
No western government wants their citizens to live longer 😜 Spot on
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Post by musik on Apr 26, 2024 22:10:47 GMT
Conclusion: You say Good Health They say Bad Health So maybe do your own research? As I say, maybe investigate the endocannabinoid system? It is the most important system in the body after all. Or show me the evidence to back up what you (or they) are saying? Well, Moilanen refers to The Latest Annual Report from INCB in his text. I suppose the chief take it as evidence. The text isn't altered in any way. This is how things are presented in Sweden. At best. The e-system. Thanks! I will.
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Post by musik on Apr 29, 2024 8:18:02 GMT
On the News just now about Walpurgis Fair Evening tomorrow, when students for the first time in many cases will have an intake of alcohol.
A professor said if you drink alcohol for the first time before you're 15 years old you will have a 50% increase of becoming addicted to alcohol. And as you all know once addicted it's better to stop using it 100% if you want to get rid of the alcohol addiction.
The professor pointed to 4 things being factors for an addiction: *If you start early in life with the drug (he actually included alcohol hurray...) *If you have problems growing up, being poor et cetera (this is weird, no money should mean no drugs) *The heritage (genetics ... of course) *Access to drugs (now I get more and more why they won't introduce cannabis here as well)
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Post by elystokie on Apr 29, 2024 8:45:26 GMT
On the News just now about Walpurgis Fair Evening tomorrow, when students for the first time in many cases will have an intake of alcohol. A professor said if you drink alcohol for the first time before you're 15 years old you will have a 50% increase of becoming addicted to alcohol. And as you all know once addicted it's better to stop using it 100% if you want to get rid of the alcohol addiction. The professor pointed to 4 things being factors for an addiction: *If you start early in life with the drug (he actually included alcohol hurray...) *If you have problems growing up, being poor et cetera (this is weird, no money should mean no drugs) *The heritage (genetics ... of course) *Access to drugs (now I get more and more why they won't introduce cannabis here as well) 🥛 I agree with the first 3, they're fairly obvious. However, alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs, I can't see the sense in criminalising something health giving whilst widely accepting something so harmful 🤔🤷 Addiction, or 'use disorder' of any kind, is caused by trauma and isolation, according to the excellent book 'Chasing the Scream' by Johann Hari (highly recommended, it'll help you understand a lot) - www.amazon.co.uk/Chasing-Scream-First-Last-Drugs/dp/1408857839"It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, 30,000-mile journey into the war on drugs to uncover its secrets - and he found that there is a startling gap between what we have been told and what is really going on. As strange as it may seem at first, drugs are not what we have been told they are; addiction is not what we think it is; and the drug war has very different motives to the ones we have seen on our TV screens." Until we understand this as a society we'll probably continue to fight this pointless war on people's choices of self medication.
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Post by elystokie on Apr 29, 2024 9:10:24 GMT
He talks about his research for the book here, well worth a watch -
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Post by elystokie on Apr 29, 2024 12:11:48 GMT
If Biden gets back in I reckon this'll be one of his priorities, once that's done our own government's position is surely untenable.
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Post by musik on Apr 29, 2024 15:28:33 GMT
Racially discriminatory? Holy shit!!
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Post by elystokie on Apr 29, 2024 17:35:13 GMT
Racially discriminatory? Holy shit!! Pretty much always has been - “You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.htmlNixon actually commissioned a report to try and justify his actions, he personally chose the chairman and some members because of their reputations for being sticklers for law and order, the link is interesting - greendorphin.com/shafer-commission-report-1972-how-nixon-ramped-war-on-marijuana/"Despite the scientific factual evidence compiled by the Shafer Commission, Nixon stuck with his uneducated ideology and embarrassed himself with statements that demonstrated his complete lack of understanding of the matter as well as his willingness to break the law to get his way. A heavy drinker himself, Nixon promoted alcohol over cannabis, not knowing the real dangers of alcohol that kills millions of people every year, in contrast to cannabis, that has never killed anyone." And we are where we are 🤷
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Post by elystokie on Apr 29, 2024 18:25:45 GMT
Racially discriminatory? Holy shit!! Nixon wasn't the first, the Godfather of prohibition was telling lies long before him - www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-anslinger-the-man-behind-the-marijuana-ban/"The second component to Anslinger’s strategy was racial. He claimed that black people and Latinos were the primary users of marijuana, and it made them forget their place in the fabric of American society. He even went so far as to argue that jazz musicians were creating “Satanic” music all thanks to the influence of pot. This obsession eventually led to a sort of witch hunt against the legendary singer Billie Holiday, who struggled with heroin addiction; she lost her license to perform in New York cabarets and continued to be dogged by law enforcement until her death. “The insanity of the racism is a thing to behold when you go into his archives,” Hari told CBS News. “He claims that cannabis promotes interracial mixing, interracial relationships.” Contrary to seemingly 'popular' belief (getting less popular by the day) there was never any scientific or logical evidence for making it illegal. It was and is a sham.
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Post by elystokie on Apr 30, 2024 7:11:29 GMT
And yet statistics show that people live happier, longer, healthier lives in states that have legalised cannabis than states that haven't. Why would someone advocate people living shorter, less happy and less healthy lives? It's completely nonsensical 🤷🏻 Check out the endocannabinoid system, please, it might explain a lot. Conclusion: You say Good Health They say Bad Health Here's a short explanation of the endocannabinoid system, at the end they say they're looking to 'produce' alternatives to THC and CBD, if those cannabinoids have no medical value why would they want to replicate them? I'll leave it to you to figure out why there's the urgency to find a synthetic alternative to something that already exists naturally 😉
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Post by elystokie on Apr 30, 2024 14:51:44 GMT
Who'd have thunk it!?! 😀 www.marijuanamoment.net/frequent-marijuana-use-doesnt-make-people-less-motivated-or-cause-paranoia-study-finds/?“Much of this myopia comes from its historical criminalization, preventing a neutral and clear-eyed evaluation of cannabis’s harms and benefits alike,” they wrote. “This led to a distorted view of cannabis and cannabis users, to the point where contemporary ethicists seriously claim that recreational cannabis use is unethical, morally illicit, and never warranted. Such moralization helps clarify why cannabis users are stereotyped as lazy, uneducated, and possibly criminal.” 👏
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Post by elystokie on May 1, 2024 6:45:16 GMT
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Post by elystokie on May 1, 2024 7:14:56 GMT
BBC covering it already 😳 Sorry but I'm quite excited 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68932612.amp"Last week, 21 Democratic lawmakers also sent a letter urging the DEA and Attorney General Merrick Garland to drop marijuana from its list of controlled-substances entirely and instead treat it like alcohol. "It is time for the DEA to act," the letter said. "Right now, the Administration has the opportunity to resolve more than 50 years of failed, racially discriminatory marijuana policy." It's time the UK 'woke' up and put some clothes on that emperor, he's looking even more ridiculous 🙂
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Post by elystokie on May 1, 2024 7:29:27 GMT
And yet statistics show that people live happier, longer, healthier lives in states that have legalised cannabis than states that haven't. Why would someone advocate people living shorter, less happy and less healthy lives? It's completely nonsensical 🤷🏻 Check out the endocannabinoid system, please, it might explain a lot. Conclusion: You say Good Health They say Bad Health What do you think the hundreds of people on the link would say? Good health or bad health? Some of them broke the law to treat their illnesses, in many cases it saved their lives. If you were in their shoes would you prefer to be illegally alive or legally dead? I know which I'd choose but we're all different 🙂 cannabishealthradio.com/
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Post by elystokie on May 1, 2024 8:59:55 GMT
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Post by elystokie on May 1, 2024 13:52:37 GMT
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Post by elystokie on May 1, 2024 14:24:13 GMT
The latest news should mean the world to some of these vets, more than 20 a day committing suicide, they seem to blame the cocktail of medications they're on, moving documentary -
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Post by elystokie on May 1, 2024 17:53:46 GMT
And yet statistics show that people live happier, longer, healthier lives in states that have legalised cannabis than states that haven't. Why would someone advocate people living shorter, less happy and less healthy lives? It's completely nonsensical 🤷🏻 Check out the endocannabinoid system, please, it might explain a lot. Conclusion: You say Good Health They say Bad Health This is an interesting article musik, there's a school of thought that suspect it was used for a similar purpose for one of Jesus's miracles 😉 news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/212301.stmHypothetically speaking, if you were in her shoes and found you could see by using cannabis would you rather be legally blind or illegally able to see?
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Post by elystokie on May 2, 2024 17:49:24 GMT
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Post by elystokie on May 3, 2024 21:26:23 GMT
3 years ago a group of fifty Parents, Doctors, MP's, Charity Leaders, activists and others recorded their own short message, all with pretty much the same aim, to get rid of the completely ridiculous misuse of drugs act 1971 and replace it with laws that don't just make things worse, here's one, the rest are on the link - transformdrugs.org/mda-at-50/50-voicesSadly, nothing has changed since and still over 400 people per month die needlessly.
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Post by elystokie on May 5, 2024 6:04:55 GMT
BBC covering it already 😳 Sorry but I'm quite excited 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68932612.amp"Last week, 21 Democratic lawmakers also sent a letter urging the DEA and Attorney General Merrick Garland to drop marijuana from its list of controlled-substances entirely and instead treat it like alcohol. "It is time for the DEA to act," the letter said. "Right now, the Administration has the opportunity to resolve more than 50 years of failed, racially discriminatory marijuana policy." It's time the UK 'woke' up and put some clothes on that emperor, he's looking even more ridiculous 🙂 I scanned the headlines relating to this groundbreaking news, the Daily Mail took the longest of all major 'news' outlets to react. I obviously haven't read the article by them but by the headline it looks like they're sticking with reefer madness and how it 'may' not be safer than MDMA and/or Adderall 😀 I somehow doubt they mention alcohol or it's relative harms in their article but I stand to be corrected by anyone that can stomach visiting their website 🙂
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Post by elystokie on May 7, 2024 6:29:32 GMT
It bemuses me that it's almost exclusively right wingers and/or the religious (which is obviously a delicious irony 😀) that are most opposed to cannabis law reform, what is it they're afraid of? www.marijuanamoment.net/top-house-democrat-says-marijuana-rescheduling-is-a-step-in-the-right-direction-while-gop-leader-opposes-reform/'House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), meanwhile, criticized the administration’s rescheduling action, saying the government should be focused on “reducing the number of people that use drugs and not increasing that number.” “We shouldn’t be making matters worse,” he said.' Conveniently overlooking the fact that in places that have legalised 'matters' haven't been made 'worse' 🤦 Far from it actually.
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