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Is the Enemy of My Enemy Still My Friend?

“Unity to be real, must survive the severest strain without breaking.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Here in California we have more than a few marijuana legalization organizations and groups scrambling for the top of the hill.

Some are involved in statewide initiatives, while others are more localized and are concentrating on city and county regulations.

California Moves Forward

Most can clearly see that the old guard of prohibition is losing and we are winning.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Since 1996 medical marijuana patients, otherwise known as Proposition 215 patients have been fighting a battle for the rights to attain and procure their medicine.

The Compassionate Use Act of 1996, is a California Proposition that was enacted by 55.6% of votes in favor of qualified patients having the right to use marijuana as medicine.

Medical Marijuana: 22 Million Felon Users

US government statistics....

(PORTLAND, OR) - The recent elections with Washington and Colorado legalizing marijuana has caused a tremendous kafuffle. THe police and district attorneys are hustling about like a chicken with no head. (Very appropriate, they are not acting!)

Meanwhile, TV stations and newspapers are flapping their wings. ---- What are we going to do?

Is Bill Clinton Hinting He Supports Legalizing Marijuana?

This is very significant, coming from a former president who ramped up the war on drugs during his two terms.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is one of several prominent people who discuss the failure of the war on drugs in the new web documentary Breaking the Taboo.

Many news outlets have covered the fact that the former president is shown on screen saying the war on drugs "hasn't worked."

Medical Marijuana Permits in Oregon: Recommendation is Not Required

Anderson Cooper picked this up and asked me, "How many prescriptions have you written"? I told him, "None" and he said, "The New York Times said you did."

(PORTLAND, OR) - The upcoming legalization of marijuana for "recreational purposes" and the frantic, "The sky is falling" response by the newspapers and TV have prompted this article by me, about the meaning of all of the terms associated with this quasi-legislation.

First of all, the state issues permits not licenses.

Medical Marijuana Comedy Club: The Oregonian Prints Reefer Madness!

What good is a live brain with a dead body?

(PORTLAND, OR) - I don't know whether to be astonished any more about The Oregonian's pathetically inane remarks about the hazards of medical marijuana.

They were doing reasonably well printing about the seven-year old girl with leukemia whose life was being preserved by the use of medical marijuana.

Medical Marijuana for Children: Would Their Doctors Condemn Them to an Agonizing Cancer Death?

In Oregon, 2,201 cancer patients use legal marijuana; 52 were children as young as 4-years old.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Oregonian headlines the article, 'A Seven-Year Old Uses Medical Marijuana' November 25, 2012.

Whether they did this for sensationalistic headlines is not clear but probably so. This story was picked up by the Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC.

Medical Marijuana Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Killer Drugs and the Safest, Best Replacement, Marijuana

He keeps ignoring the most important part...

(PORTLAND, OR) - I never knew that Dr. Gupta was a surgical pharmacologist, whatever that may be but his CNN program on 'Killer Drugs' November 17 2012 was a welcome educational program.

I was surprised that he used the word opioids constantly so I had to check my Merck manual because I had studied pharmacology under two of the most renowned opiate pharmacologists.

Medical Marijuana: The Replacement for Very Dangerous Drugs

Marijuana is less addictive and less dangerous than Starbuck’s espresso.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Dr. Sanjay Gupta will be speaking on CNN Sunday night about the 'killer drugs'.

This article was first written in 2007; it still is found very easily on Google; I wonder where Dr. Gupta has been for the last five years!

The Government Lied, And This Law-Abiding Father Got 80 Years In Prison

80 years for growing a natural plant legal under state law.

(HELENA, MT) - If there was any doubt in your mind as to whether or not our nation's drug policies are completely broken, this should settle them.

Story shows absurdity of prohibition, the failure of the war on drugs, and mandatory minimums.