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VA Does the Unthinkable, Relaxing Official Federal Position on Medical Marijuana

Possibly the biggest news in the modern history of marijuana decriminalization.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Veterans Administration (VA) is relaxing the rules for veterans who use medical marijuana in states where it is legal.

Experts and activists are calling the decision historic; it will certainly change the position of many vets currently receiving care, who until now have been restricted under VA rules, to dangerous morphine based drugs for treatment; pills that are both highly addictive, and deadly.

Women in their 50s More Prone to PTSD than Men

The researchers found that the total prevalence PTSD was twice as common in women as in men.

(LONDON) - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates peak in women later than they do in men. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal Annals of General Psychiatry found that men are most vulnerable to PTSD between the ages of 41 and 45 years, while women are most vulnerable at 51 to 55.

Ask Elklit and Daniel N Ditlevsen, from the University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital, Denmark, collected data from 6,548 participants in previous Danish or Nordic PTSD studies in order to investigate the gender difference in the lifespan distribution of PTSD.

Some Thoughts on Resistance

An attempt to translate the concept “holy war” could be something like “Harb Muqaddassah” which in Arabic is unheard of and even an absurdity! These words are NEVER used in our written or spoken language!!

(LONDON) - In an ideal world, one could fantasise and theorise about how life could or should be, and how one should deal with unfavourable circumstances.

Concerned Women for America: Sharing Hate Ideology with Westboro Baptist Church

Sharing a belief system; conservative Americans all too often bring more shame than good.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A confused nation full of way too full of ignorance and willful disregard for right over wrong; that is America today.

In the midst of all of our pain and uncertainty as a nation, we discover that a prominent aspect of the Tea Party set; the Concerned Women for America, shares the same belief system with those dreaded bastards from Topeka who regularly protest U.S. military funerals while stomping U.S. flags into the ground.

Veterans Administration Needs to Take Charge and Become Advocates for Change

If our nation rescinds its promises and ignores its obligation to those who have fought to preserve freedom throughout the world, we compromise the right to ask our men and women to serve and defend our national principals.

(GARDEN GROVE, Calif.) - Veterans-For-Change, an advocacy group for Veterans rights, benefits, and treatment, would like to bring to your attention the ever-increasing problems affecting veterans and their families every day.

President Obama has clearly stated, “Whether you left the service in 2009 or 1949, we will fulfill our responsibility to deliver the benefits and care that you earned. That's why I've pledged to build nothing less than a 21st-century VA”.

Extremely Powerful Video: `Even The Troops Are Waking Up`

"We were told we were fighting terrorists, the real terrorist who's me and the real terrorism is this occupation..."

(SALEM, Ore.) - Do you consider yourself pro-war? Watch this video and then answer that question again. It is likely to change. The intensity of a combat veteran turned anti-war can be serious.

Not because of anger or loud words, but because of the credibility for having bore witness to the ultimate trick, the deadliest game.

`Atomic Veterans` to be Remembered

Oregon Atomic Veterans Day Celebration is July 16‏.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Members of the Oregon Association of Atomic Veterans will host a ceremony and celebration in Lebanon, Friday, July 16, to remember Atomic Veterans Day.

All military veterans and their families are invited to attend the celebration being held at Lebanon's American Legion Post 51, 480 Main St., at 10:00 a.m.

The Blood of Christ

Unity through Diversity, with mutual respect for all, will produce better and longer-lasting results than absolute obedience to absolute authority.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - Christianity evolved as a plan by a coterie of Judaic sectarians convinced its philosophy of One God for All Nations should replace Judaism’s One God of the Jewish Nation.

The cult hoped initially to exalt the Jewish God by making him the God of All Nations, a concept unacceptable to Jewish leaders who may have objected to being less than Jehovah's Chosen People.

Can General Petraeus Turn the Tide in Kandahar?

General David Petreaus can turn the tide in Kandahar if and when the Afghans, who have already contemplated this real home-grown predicament, have his ear.

(SEATTLE) - The southern city of Kandahar, the last Afghan territory to be handed over by the British in 1830, was also known as the center of greatest resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980’s.

Today it measures as the epicenter of intense political competition, drug trafficking and an operational nightmare for a U.S. led counterinsurgency campaign; once again proving its historic destiny as a make-or-break location for another Afghan war.

Representative Kurt Schrader as an Afghan War Strategist

The same goes for DeFazio, Wu and Blumenauer.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Don’t think that I don’t have the greatest respect AND empathy for these people. Washington DC has about the worst climate in the U.S. – blazing hot and moist in the summer and miserable in the winter. Oregon is paradise by comparison.

Representative Schrader reminds us that Alexander the Great failed to conquer the place as did Britain and Russia.