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The Right To Get Stoned (Part 2 of 2) Part 1 is here---> https://www.facebook.com/WeedsGlassAndGifts/posts/4294182747277624 PhD stands for "Doctor of Philosophy". Science is a branch of philosophy and it grows on the same side of the tree as religion. Both religion and science were created to answer the mousey question: 'What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?'... Is it too much to ask of a scientist to show us the science that explains our consciousness - what it is, whence it came, why it exists, how it works - before condescending to us that we're altering it wrong? When scientists and their cult following insist that we want weed because we just want to get stoned, what does that mean? It means that we want to alter our consciousness with a plant - the very consciousness that scientists don't understand and can't explain. Speaking for myself, weed is a familiar and comfortable way to explore outside the box. Those unscientific expeditions have changed my life inside the box for the better. The bullshit no longer smells like roses to me; roses smell like roses. My stoned excursions sharpened my wits. Fiction reads like fiction. Scientists have compelled people to believe that I likely damaged my brain by starting regular use of weed at age 13 and by consuming it more or less daily for 43 years. If weed has changed my brain structure or affected my IQ then I'm perfectly happy with the result. Do cheeseburgers cause changes in the developing brain? Scientists don't even know for sure what the IQ test actually measures - it's the subject of ongoing scholarly debate. Do not misconstrue what I'm saying as promoting in any way the use of any drug. I'm promoting the use of reason. Scientists are not saying that weed is riskier than the more popular psychoactive 'mind-altering' drug, caffeine. They wouldn't get away with it if they did, they're scientists not Buddhas. What they are saying, in obfuscated ways, is that they will surely find the smoking gun proof that weed is riskier than caffeine, sooner or later; i.e. in science-time. Until then, everyone must assume that the risky weed theory is correct and the theory will be backstopped with harsh consequences for doubting it. We all must make that leap of faith, the guy with the Glock on his hip said so. You have the right to obey.

The Right To Get Stoned (Part 1 of 2) (Fun/intellectual read... puff your bong; think outside the box) ~ We live in a stuffy little box of scientific understanding. It's comfortable for everybody - scientific explanations make things feel familiar and sensible... and safe. It's comfortable so long as nobody goes poking holes in the walls to reveal just how little and how stuffy it really is.... The Scientific Method has never been proven as an apparatus capable of answering every question. Numerous scientific paradoxes are strong evidence that science is flawed. Leaps of faith are required in order to feel secure in science but it's impolite to point that out to the science cult. The cult of science is smugly sure that science is all-knowing, all-seeing, despite no scientific proof of either of those abilities. 'Leaps of faith' sounds too religious for the science cult's liking. Religions attempt to answer questions that are beyond the reach of science. To the science cult it's bad manners to ask those questions and it's downright rude to point out any apparent flaws in science, such as paradoxes. Science is divine in the eyes of its cult following - to them it's the one and only god. Science became death, the destroyer of worlds. I say all this as an admirer of science; science has its warts but science is not ugly until posed as unblemished. Science is not ugly until it is an instrument of harm. Science has many merits but it's not perfect. Importantly, what science doesn't know doesn't matter in science-time, it matters NOW. Our experience of life is not constrained by science. The constraints upon us are devices of scientists bent on punishing us for peeking through the holes in their stuffy little box, teaching us as little children to fear what lies beyond their oppressive walls. Scientists ascribe a moral ordering to drugs in our societies and dictate punitive public policies aimed to stop people from using the drugs that drill holes in the walls of their scientific crib. Scientists dictate prohibitive laws - prohibitive prohibition, prohibitive legalization - unrelenting in this futility all the way to their "Axiom" of Infinity. Why do we stoners want to see how little and how stuffy the box really is? It's personal; that's why. Continued (Part 2)---> https://www.facebook.com/WeedsGlassAndGifts/posts/4294205570608675

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Bad Grandpa? See: CBC, "'What kind of grandfather needs 140 plants?': Neighbours fed up with dozens of medical marijuana grow-ops", https://www.cbc.ca//medical-marijuana-tavares-ross-eadie-c... Canada "legalized" cannabis but legalization didn't involve normalizing it. "[...] measures to reduce consumption are 'crucial' to ensuring that Canadians 'do not come to view the use of cannabis as normalized adult behaviour.'" See: A FRAMEWORK FOR THE LEGALIZATION AND REGULATION OF CANNABIS IN CANADA, page 90, https://www.canada.ca//framework-legalization-regulation-c Since legalization the Canadian government has spent into the hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars on anti-cannabis propaganda. As a consequence, all the prejudice and discrimination of prohibition is still here in Canada's oppressive post-"legalization" dystopia. "[...] instead of warning the public not to consume it, the messages point out that there are circumstances where it should be avoided." Source: CBC, "Health Canada spending $100M on cannabis education over 6 years", September 2, 2018, https://www.cbc.ca//cannabis-education-health-canada-1.480 And those circumstances are every circumstance, always... Patty Hajdu (Canada's Minister of Health) explained the this in simple terms, "The best way for Canadians to protect their health is not to consume cannabis, and adults who choose [not to protect their health] should avoid products from illegal or unknown sources." Source: Health Canada, "Statement from the Minister of Health on the Introduction of New Cannabis Products into the Legal and Regulated Market", December 17, 2019, https://www.canada.ca//statement-from-the-minister-of-heal Cannabis still isn't normal in Canada. The government won't allow that.

Canada's pot "legalization" stands against the re-normalization of pot in Canadian society. Pot was common in Canada prior to the 1923 prohibition. There is much conjecture and debate about it but no record of any reason for that prohibition has ever been found. There was no debate in parliament, no questions were asked. Why the Government of Canada criminalized cannabis in 1923 is an enduring mystery. Why the Government of Canada further criminalized cannabis in 2018 is a ne...w mystery. Since "legalization" government spending on anti-cannabis propaganda has rocketed into hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars. Post-legalization the Canadian Government continues to oppress and promote prejudice and discrimination against cannabis consumers. Racialized and marginalized people are most vulnerable. Policymakers were only following doctors' orders... Organizations representing Canada's physicians and nurses see "measures to reduce consumption" as "crucial" to ensuring that Canadians "do not come to view the use of cannabis as normalized adult behaviour." Source: Government of Canada, "A Framework for the Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada", page 90. https://www.canada.ca//framewo/alt/framework-cadre-eng.pdf "Measures to reduce consumption"... prejudice, discrimination and oppression. "...oppression is systematic, it makes biases (prejudices) normal and it reinforces those biases (discrimination) in individuals." https://community.ontariotechu.ca//oppression,-discriminat https://www.newsoptimist.ca/saskatchewan-woman-says-use-of-

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'If we turn our backs on them many of them will go back to the streets and die' Earlier this month... Vancouver Is Awesome, "Non-profit evicted for providing DTES residents cannabis as harm reduction means",... https://www.vancouverisawesome.com//non-profit-dtes-reside This wouldn't be a problem if "legalization" had meant: re-classify cannabis as what it undeniably is - a Natural Health Product - and license and regulate it under the existing Natural Health Products Regulations. The Government of Canada chose not to do that because that path would derail the "dedicated medical market" that Big pharma has demanded. The Final Report of the Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation; November 30, 2016; page 48 >> "stakeholders asserted that the approval process used for natural health products would be appropriate to use for cannabis, given that it is a herbal medicine [but Big pharma] would be unlikely to invest in clinical drug development research without the presence of, and a pathway to, a dedicated medical market." << http://publications.gc.ca//coll/sc-hc/H14-220-2016-eng.pdf Canada's cannabis policy is the gift of a dedicated medical market to Big pharma and if that means that Canadians have to suffer and die... collateral damage. Coldly and obediently Health Canada continues to serve its Big pharma master. See also: Cannabis Substitution Project Evicted During Pandemic, https://pot.tv//cannabis-substitution-project-evicted-dur/ #weedsgg

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Cpl. Derrick Francis with Merritt RCMP says the impact of getting that amount of cannabis off the street is immeasurable. Dear Cpl. Dick, how so? What was wrong with it? https://vancouversun.com//cannabis-grow-op-near-merritt-bu

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"Drug crime is a problem almost as old as human history, which proves standard 'solutions' aren’t working." Peterborough Examiner, Sat., Nov. 21, 2020, https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com//peterborough-edit That may sound reasonable to people believing that the Earth is 6000 years old. The rest of us know that drug crime has been a problem since drugs were *criminalized. Before then crime was crime and drugs were drugs.

Regina Leader-Post, (earlier today) - "Canada has two systems for cannabis use, but they’re at risk of blending into one / A gap between recreational convenience and medical accessibility is shaping the way some Canadian medical cannabis patients obtain care" Link: https://leaderpost.com//canada-has-two-systems-for-cannabi Arguably, the physical effects of cannabis are independent of the individual's "goal" - to get high or to treat illness. Ingest the cannabinoids and the ...cannabinoids are going to do what the cannabinoids do. It's shocking that Canadians could become so bamboozled by this. In Canada there is no government policy for either medical cannabis or recreational cannabis. Nonsensically the standing policies are for cannabis use-case scenarios: "cannabis for medical purposes" and "cannabis for non-medical purposes". And that's odd because it's all the same medicinal cannabis and what it will do to a person is unconstrained by any imagined "purpose". Whether or not you are using cannabis for "medical purposes" or for "non-medical purposes" is determined by: 1- Your choice to involve your doctor or not -AND- 2- your doctor's choice to provide a stamp of approval or not. Imagine if the government applied the same use-case policies to aspirin. "Honestly, doc, I have a headache... it hurts!" Cannabis is a herbal medicine and an ancient traditional medicine and people have been passing down knowledge about it from generation to generation since the dawn of recorded history. So what's really going on here? To find out more see WEEDS post, "A Shout Out To Canada's Medical Cannabis Patients!", Link: https://www.facebook.com//a.610503598978/3638317892864116/ #potpolicy #cannabismedicine #recreational #weed #weedsgg

Saving Emily If western medicine were a religion, this wealthy and powerful cult would be called 'The Church of Pharmacology'. The cult regard themselves as demigods and, blind to "the complex cultural and social forces that influence a drug-taker's experience with the substance"*, western medicine regards pharmaceutical drugs as angelic. "DeGrandpre argues that this 'cult of pharmacology' creates a notion of 'angel' drugs (pharmaceuticals like Prozac and Ritalin) or 'demon' ...Continue reading

Is the USA on a trajectory to do pot policy right? Yesterday we explained that Canada's pot 'legalization' is, in truth, Canada's first explicit pot prohibition. We explained that Canada's war on pot has always been a war against the renormalization of pot in Canadian society and, as such, the pot war continues to be a war on peopleCanadians, namely Canada's pot culture. We explained that Canada's legalization aims to relieve pot culture of their pot and to legalize pot cult...ure out of existence in a way similar to what Thomas King described as the Canadian government's approach to dealing with indigenous peopleto relieve native people of their land and to legalize them out of existence. See Weeds post: https://www.facebook.com/WeedsGlassAndGifts/posts/4023179134377988 Strip away the media hype and spin and that is what Canada's legalization isan Act of demagoguery, a blatant belligerent cultural oppression. In the USA, on the other hand, the MORE Act (Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act) now stands a good chance to become the world's first pot war reconciliation. The MORE Act would decriminalize pot (Canada has not decriminalized pot) and treat it like tobacco in terms of cultivation, possession, etc. The MORE Act would apply a 5% tax on pot sales and use that money to help the people (mostly racialized minorities) who have suffered due to the pot war. The MORE Act allows for expungement of criminal recordsnot merely pardons as the Canadian government eventually and begrudgingly tacked on to Canada's legalization in order to quiet criticism from the public. Canada and the world should pay close attention to what the U.S. does with its pot policy in the coming months and years.

The finding would have cleared the air on cannabis smoking but news media buried it... Moderate pot smokers’ lung function better than nonsmokers "Smoking marijuana moderately over years is strongly associated with small improvements in lung function, even compared to people who have never smoked cigarettes or marijuana, according to a study in JAMA. But the popular news media and the study authors downplayed that finding of the study, apparently to avoid sending a pro-mariju...ana message." --PulmCCM.org, Dec. 21, 2012, https://pulmccm.org//infrequent-pot-smokers-have-better-l/ The CARDIA study "followed 5,115 young U.S. men and women for 20 years (1985-2006) collecting data on tobacco and marijuana use, and included spirometry from 20,777 clinic visits: an enormous trove of longitudinal data." Journal of the American Medical Association, Jan. 11, 2012, "Association Between Marijuana Exposure and Pulmonary Function Over 20 Years", https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1104848 Interview with UCSF's Dr. Mark Pletcher about his study on marijuana's effect on lungs (1 min. 18 sec.): https://youtu.be/OgzoEMDM-c0 You were surprised [by the finding]--were you disappointed? Dr. Pletcher: No, I'm a scientist, I'm interested in the truth... #CARDIA #JAMA #potsmoking #marijuana #cannabis #weed #weedsgg

Without modern health claims, cannabis is a traditional medicine. "Traditional medicine is defined as medicine based on the sum total of knowledge, skills and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures, used in the maintenance of health, as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness. This definition is one modified from the World Health Organization Traditional Medicine Program, ...recognizing traditional medicines at their core as ancient medical practice that existed in human societies before the application of modern science to health and that have evolved to reflect different philosophical backgrounds and cultural origins." Source: Health Canada, Pathway for Licensing Natural Health Products used as Traditional Medicines, https://www.canada.ca//pathway-licensing-traditional-medic > Traditional Medicine Canada closed this pathway for cannabis in order to gift Big pharma with a dedicated medical market. "[...] stakeholders asserted that the approval process used for natural health products would be appropriate to use for cannabis [... but ...] industry[*] would be unlikely to invest in clinical drug development research without the presence of, and a pathway to, a dedicated medical market." Source: Government of Canada, A Framework for the Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada, https://www.canada.ca//framework-legalization-regulation-c *The industry is Big pharma. Consequently, cannabis is not recognized as a traditional medicine that existed in human societies before the application of modern science to health. The Government of Canada has dismissed the different philosophical backgrounds and cultural origins of cannabis. Modern science has strongly confirmed a vast amount of cannabis knowledge based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures and the Canadian government belligerently denies this. Health Canada has approved thousands of traditional medicines as Natural Health Products (NHPs). You can have your traditional medicines and eat them too - no clinical trials necessary - just not cannabis. Cannabis medicines are required to undergo clinical trials because the Canadian Government has awarded Big pharma a dedicated medical market. #potpolicy #culturalappropriation #weedsgg

#Canada #PotPolicy #LongRead Legalization is a necessary step toward pot normalization. The Cannabis Act of 2018 is legalization *against normalizationan unworkable ‘treaty’ because it opposes what pot culture has been peacefully fighting for all along: normal status in civil society. Today the government is still marching forward the century-old determination to stop Canadians from ever coming to view pot use as normal adult behavior and this is apparent in two conspicuou...Continue reading

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Recently I stumbled on this article from 2010 and here we are 10 years after and all the same could be said about BC Liquor Distribution Branch and weed. When weed was legalized, John Horgan leveraged BC LDB to secure his election victory with a promise to give BC LDB a monopoly on weed distribution in the province - undeniably a political pork barrel gift. Now BC's weed entrepreneurs are in the same boat the wine industry was in back in 2010. Author of the letter, Jake Skaku...n, called BC LDB a "monster" and the monster grew uglier and more greedy when the Canadian government moved to legalize cannabis. Skakun points out that BC LDB should not be involved in the wine business and called on them to "let it go"... "My colleagues wont be forced to head out on illicit, monthly runs to Calgary or Seattle to keep the shelves stocked with interesting spirits and wines (where they are even offered a licensee discountwhat a novel fucking concept!). Sounds a little like prohibition, doesn’t it?" BC LDB has a monopoly on weed distribution in the province of British Columbia, and a chain of retail stores that operate with seriously unfair, anti-competitive advantages, operating at a loss and propped up by BC taxpayers, and recently outed by the BC Auditor General for sketchy contract awards that may well have involved criminal activity. With BC LDB gone... "eventually it will be great; our grass transforming from dry and dying sod to thick, healthy patches with promise." https://scoutmagazine.ca//to-whom-it-may-concern-at-the-b/

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Cheers to trailblazer Dana Larsen for opening North America's first coca-themed cafe in Vancouver! <3 "Coca leaf has been used medicinally, socially and spiritually for thousands of years. Millions of people drink coca tea every day across South America. I am proud to bring this wonderful tea to Canadians with North America's first coca-themed cafe." ~ Dana Larsen https://www.facebook.com/cocaleafcafe

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