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Stuttering, Pain and Battle Fatigue Part 1 in a 2 Part Series

When I was in severe pain I stuttered badly. It seemed to me that all the pain neurons in my head were repeatedly firing and my normal speech was destroyed.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I guess most people understand the first two but how does Battle Fatigue get into the picture. Well it isn’t, it’s Terror Fatigue and rightfully so.

Mount Marijuana Permit Explosion

Almost 50,000 Oregon patients now have permits.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Way back in 1998 learned gentlemen of the Department of Human Services (DHS) when confronted with the legalization of Medical Marijuana collectively opined that about 500 patients in Oregon would qualify and be eligible for the ultra-valuable Oregon Medical Marijuana Permit.

After the first year, there were about 1000 patients and they of the DHS contentedly settled back, “Well we were only half wrong”.

Ninth Circuit Court Denies Government Request to Resume Clearcutting Upper Big Hole Valley

The ruling preserves the right of all citizens to request a preliminary injunction to stop construction before the damage is done.

(WISDOM, Mont.) - A ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week has set a precedent by defining at what point environmental groups may stop federal projects.

In question was the Preliminary Injunction issued by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last year that stopped a massive federal logging project about 15 miles west of Wisdom in Montana’s Big Hole Valley.

U.S. Trade Representative Kirk Requests Arbitration under the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement

British Columbia is accused of unfair competition and put American workers and the nation’s timber industry in jeopardy

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Sen. Jeff Merkley is backing a request arbitration with Canada under the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement over the under-pricing of timber harvested from public lands in BC.

“Canada has a formal trade agreement with the United States, but our friends to the North continue to ignore their responsibility by subsidizing Canadian softwood lumber exports,” said Merkley.

Canada`s Herbal Remedy to the Auto Crisis: the Kestrel Hemp EV

Kestrel paves the way for sustainable transportation with hemp as a construction material.

(VICTORIA, B.C.) - Environmentalists speak often, and prophetically, about the need for more industry impetus for cars with low or—even better yet—zero emissions.

What’s not centre-stage, and should be, is the fact that hemp fibre can be used effectively as a construction material for a vehicle’s shell. Move over Hybrid.

Commerce News: Border Farmers Wanted

Cultivating new farmers and building up a locally-focused agricultural infrastructure are key goals...

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Well-established in north-central New Mexico, local growers' markets are now expanding in the southern New Mexico borderland.

Recently, representatives of four regional farmers' markets banded together to form the Southern New Mexico Farmers Marketing Group (SNFMG).

Medical Marijuana: Lying, Addicted Patients and Gullible, Duped Doctors

Marijuanaphobes and Miserable Diseases

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Marijuana therapeutics, the use of marijuana as medicine, is probably the most reviled medical substance ever found, which is ironic to the extreme. It is simultaneously the safest, most useful and most used medicine ever found.

The patients who use marijuana are reviled as pot heads which is about pejorative as possible.

Dr. Oz and Medical Marijuana: Continuation

Reality is a goal for doctors walking along the (golden) yellow brick road

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I recently posted an article “Medical Marijuana and Dr. Oz”, responding to his article “You Docs: Risks in Taking Medical marijuana”.

I took him to task because he was writing about the medical risks which are minimal and glossing over the great, therapeutic benefits which are many and in fact, drugs of choice for about 100 disparate medical problems.

Building Border Food Security

“I think it’s been really positive,” - Youth Organizer, Cristina Dominguez

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Sprouting up in the Rio Grande Valley, a new organization seeks to reshape the production, distribution and consumption of food.

Called La Semilla Food Center, the New Mexico-based project intends not only to grow and sell organic food, but also expose youth to new careers, inspire value-added industries, get locally-grown produce into large institutions, spin-off small businesses, and encourage nutritional awareness.

From the Township Garden to the City Table

“To grow these vegetables here for me, first, is a life” - Christina Kaba, a farmer working with HoH

(CAPE TOWN, South Africa) - Around 1 million people in South Africa—the majority of whom are recent arrivals from the former apartheid homelands, Transkei and Ciskei— live in the shacks that make up Khayelitsha, Nyanga and the area surrounding the Cape Flats outside Cape Town.

Just under half, or 40 percent, of the population is unemployed, while the rest barely earn enough income to feed their families.