http://yourbrainonbliss.com/Blog All about cannabinoids and American drug policy. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:36:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1251" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Senator Diane Feinstein"][/caption] California Democrat and Senator Diane Feinstein is advocating truly idiotic drug war policies. During her long senate career her neo-con leanings have been a disappointment. She was an enthusiastic participant in crafting punitive, ruinous drug war legislation and signed on to George W. Bush's ... http://yourbrainonbliss.com/Blog/?p=1208 [caption id="attachment_1266" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="SWAT"][/caption] A Southern Oregon SWAT squad gunned down a Mexican national tending a marijuana garden by shooting him in the back. It took the grand jury an entire 5 minutes to determine that the killing was "fully justified and in compliance with Oregon law." The local newspaper version ... http://yourbrainonbliss.com/Blog/?p=1264 A tax-payer funded boondoggle is underway at the Jackson Country, Oregon sheriff's office. The sheriff is adept at exploiting huge sources of federal money targeted at eradicating marijuana. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, a gravy train of (borrowed) federal dollars awaits local law enforcement willing to focus on ... http://yourbrainonbliss.com/Blog/?p=1217 http://yourbrainonbliss.com/Blog/?p=1212 Demonstrating a new moral low, the USA has scored a new political prisoner, Canadian entrepreneur Marc Emery. Almost immediately this outspoken voice ending cannabis prohibition suffered solitary confinement. This is a form of torture; as anyone who has suffered this social and sensory deprivation can testify. The Instanbul Statement, a ... http://yourbrainonbliss.com/Blog/?p=1201 In an excellent Huffington Post, "VA Docs Prohibited From Discussing Medical Marijuana With Returning Vets," Bob Kerrey and Jason Flom document the VA is stifling treatment options for American Veterans. These veterans, many suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, are denied prescriptions of cannabis, which may well be ... http://yourbrainonbliss.com/Blog/?p=1180 The classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug for the past decades has been a disaster of immense proportions, and a massive American injustice. This evil taints the lives of millions of American citizens unjustly arrested and prosecuted. The draconian scheduling evokes punitive mandatory minimums and helped turn the ... http://yourbrainonbliss.com/Blog/?p=1166 [caption id="attachment_1147" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="John Paul Stevens"][/caption] The legacy of retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Steven's is forever tarnished by his befuddled vote on Gonzales v. Raich in 2005. This case, one of the most important in decades, was decisive in issues of individual liberty versus big government control and ... http://yourbrainonbliss.com/Blog/?p=1144 [caption id="attachment_1128" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Jerry Brown, pawn of the prohibition bureaucrats."][/caption] "I have been on the side of law enforcement for a long time, and you can be sure that we will be together on this November ballot," said the once and future governor Jeffy Brown. He was referring to his ... http://yourbrainonbliss.com/Blog/?p=1124 Medical cannabis consumers (and everybody else) should limit high fructose corn syrup. Obesity and metabolic disease menace Americans (and much of the world's people). Consuming high fructose corn syrup is a risk factor in these degenerative diseases. And it may well be that medical cannabis consumers are at even greater ... http://yourbrainonbliss.com/Blog/?p=1106