Police investigate foster parents for medical marijuana sales

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[Tim Pro]

Medical marijuana is a sham. It's amazing how many busts there are where the medical growers are selling their crop to the open (non medical) market. And the open market is just people that are too lazy to make an appointment, pay the equivilant of a few eighths, and tell a doctor they have anxiety (of getting busted by the cops.)

[Jonk]

wow, they turn storys around so vastly that the original scene becomes so horrific that no one wants to read it, all for what, veiws? fans? Thats not even how it went and i know that for sure, idiots..

[George]

This is ****.

pretty much all of it is falsified.

[lcjc]

Great example(not) these foster parents were for the children they were entrusted to care for. Their parent card should have been torn up a long time ago.
It was never called "anxiety" when I was young, if you had problems you were told "deal with it" and not by smoking pot, now you are rewarded with a new problem called "addiction."

[Poopy-head]

My Mom says pot makes You grow boobies.

[Richard Steeb]

Tim Pro wrote:

Medical marijuana is a sham. It's amazing how many busts there are where the medical growers are selling their crop to the open (non medical) market. And the open market is just people that are too lazy to make an appointment, pay the equivilant of a few eighths, and tell a doctor they have anxiety (of getting busted by the cops.)

Cannabis prohibition is an ABOMINABLE sham.

"Neither the composition of cannabis nor human physiology has changed since cannabis was illegitimately removed from the U.S. Pharmacopoeia in 1940." [Tod Mikuriya, M.D.] Lose the ignorance. Google "WB O'Shaughnessy".

[Tim Pro]

Drop the bong and move away from the PC!

[Ismokeweed]

Tim Pro wrote:

Medical marijuana is a sham. It's amazing how many busts there are where the medical growers are selling their crop to the open (non medical) market. And the open market is just people that are too lazy to make an appointment, pay the equivilant of a few eighths, and tell a doctor they have anxiety (of getting busted by the cops.)

if it is such a sham then why does the government have a patent on medical marijuana? You're an idiot. Pls don't believe everything that you read in the papers. Maybe if you smoke a joint or too, you would be such a moron.

[Ismokeweed]

Funny huh? Just check out US Patent 6630507 titled "Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants" which is assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services.

The patent claims that "Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia."

The patent was obtained in October of 2003.

[Richard Steeb]

"Sow it everywhere". Do you know who said that?

Look up "W. B. O'Shaughnessy".

Look up "beet field peons".

Look up "Francis L. Young"

Any questions?

[and it's a Volcano, made by Storz & Bickel,'Pro']

[Richard Steeb]

...Oops, that should have been "beet field peon" [singular]

Google it. Understand the 'science' behind the loss of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia's noble herb after a century of inclusion.

"white men's shadows" is another good search string if you are curious how the herb became illegal.

[Accountability Check]

Poopy-head wrote:

My Mom says pot makes You grow boobies.

That's guys who use a lot. Usually the guys are a little heavy anyway...

[Brinna]

It's funny or perhaps sad that so many foster parents smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol and no one thinks their kids should be taken away from them. Bring cannabis into the picture and you think you were dealing with satanists, for heaven's sake. Cannabis is such a benign herb, it's hard to understand why there is such a fear of it in our society. Perhaps it's our puritanical streak: if it makes you feel good, it must be bad. I personally believe that cannabis should be regulated and taxed. That an age restriction of at least 21, and perhaps 25 should be instituted, except for medical necessity. And yes, cannabis is a legitimate medicine, and has been for thousands of years. I know this will shock some of you, but studies done in Virginia and in Spain showed that cannabis caused cancer cells to die, while protecting healthy cells. As someone already mentioned, patent #6,630507 on the medical uses of cannabis is held by our very own government, yet, for some reason, folks are very afraid of it. Are we just living out the paranoid legacy of Richard Nixon who ignored the study that he himself commissioned to look at the dangers of cannabis. Unfortunately,(for Nixon) the Shaffer Commission, didn't find many dangers, and recommended that cannabis (marijuana) be legalized. Ooops! So, what did Nixon do: why he pushed for greater criminality, because those "pot smokers" were the same ones who were pushing for an end to the Viet Nam war.(I did mention he was paranoid, didn't I -- not much rationality there, I'm afraid.) So why are still following this failed, destructive policy? It is time that those of us who believe we need to change our strategy with regard to drugs in general, and cannabis specifically, start speaking out, and writing to our representatives.