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truedelphi's JournalIf you live in Calif - Let's keep state law in full support for all cannabis users.
From Americans for Safe Access:
Dear Carol --
Last-minute amendments turned a good medical cannabis bill into a bad one, and ASA needs your help today to stop SB 1193. Patients and advocates have supported this bill all year, because it required law enforcement to pay reasonable compensation if they damaged or destroyed lawfully-possessed medical cannabis or plants. But the Assembly Appropriations Committee quietly deleted those provisions last week and sent a bill devoid of patient benefits to the Assembly for a final vote.
That is not fair, and we need to speak up now to be sure that lawmakers know that this bill is not what we have supported for months. Can you do two things to help stop SB 1193 today?
1. Call the bill’s author, Senator Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa), at 916-651-4002 and tell her to withdraw SB 1193. The bill was supposed to be a compromise. It relaxed the rules for handling cannabis seized as medicine, but protected property rights for legal patients. Tell the Senator that it is not fair to change the nature of the bill after patients and advocates spent months supporting it. Remember that you are most effective when you are brief and courteous.
2. Send an email to your state Assembly Member and ask him or her to oppose SB 1193 in the Assembly. They could vote on the amended bill any day now, so please do this today.
Law enforcement should not confiscate legal medical cannabis and plants. If they do, they should have to give it back. And if they damaged or destroyed it, they should have to pay for it.
If you don’t speak up against this unfair and unannounced change, no one else will. This is what grassroots activism is all about. Don’t let your Assembly Member think we still support a bill that does nothing to help legal patients. Make one call and send one email today, so they know the truth before they vote on SB 1193.
On edit: If you need help with determining how to reach your assembly person, here is the link (You do have to know your district number)
http://assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers
ASA is committed to bringing the voice of patients and other stakeholders to the table in local, state, and federal conversations about medical cannabis. If you appreciate the chance to participate, please support our work today.
Thank you for helping,
Don Duncan, Americans for Safe Access
http://www.safeaccessnow.org/
Americans for Safe Access · 1806 Vernon St NW, 3, Washington, DC 20009, United States
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Physicians move from The USA to Canada for better life
http://www.correntewire.com/obamacare_clusterfuck_doctors_moving_north_to_single_payer_canadaObamaCare Clusterfuck: Doctors moving north to single payer Canada
Submitted by lambert on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 12:17pm
And why is this? Outright looting by insurance companies. PNHP, quoting the Canadian Medical Journal:
TORONTO -- With the prospect of greater pay, fewer bureaucratic headaches and an opportunity to provide better care for patients, the number of American doctors migrating north is rising, according to Canadian recruiters and Canadian Medical Association data.
Susan Craig, president of the Toronto-based physician recruiter, Susan Craig Associates, said that Canada is becoming "increasingly attractive." Meanwhile John Philpott, the Halifax-based chief executive director of Can-Am Recruiting, noted "interest is doubling each year for American doctors" seeking to move north.
Increased pay is the main driver of this interest. Philpott said family physicians, pediatricians and psychiatrists can make $100,000 more in Canada, on average, compared to the U.S.
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Article goes on to say that under Obamacare, some 30% of all billings never get paid at all, and the physicians are just out that money. Why is it that the Insurance Industry is not regulated, and can take and take from the public via premiums, co-pays and deductibles, and yet the health care providers go unpaid?
Meanwhile in Canada, only 5% of all billings end up unpaid.
A quick course in showing how the St Louis Theories on Police Protection were developed:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204740874028640&set=a.1104138330593.2018400.1440807027&type=1&theater
The video does more than criticize Obama. It points out that the USA most undoubtedly
has contributed monies to the ISIS team players.
The aid from the USA to ISIS may have been direct aid (although perhaps hidden in black op portion of our federal budget) or indirect aid. Let me explain the indirect aid:
Back at end of summer, 2010, when I was complaining about how Tim Geithner refused to give a loan of 20 billions of dollars to the 37 million people of California at the time that Schwartzennegger requested such, another DU'er calculated the tremendous amounts of weaponry that we were donating to Israel and to the UAE states. Fast forward to today: Now those of us researching the source of ISIS power are finding that much of the weaponry has come from the legit governments of various UAE strates. Since we outright GAVE these places and Israel 55 BILLIONS of dollars worth of weaponry in a thirteen month period, immediately after Tim Geithner denied citizens of California a loan, one can see how easy it would be for these UAE states to have the bloody machinery to cause the destruction that ISIS is causing.
DU'er Mother earth did not say that the actual scientific method has no value.
I think anyone who took a halfway decent science class in middle school or high school has been taught what you posted in your reply above.
But what she is trying to relate to you, if you would let her, is that the total control of the Corporate world over the laboratories of science means that right now, "Truth" is about as likely to come out of a laboratory, as it was to come out of a pulpit, back in the days of The Holy Roman Catholic Church.
Do you wanna know why we in the USA even have GM foods seeds, and crops here in the USA, while other countries are backing away from them? It is not because of any given study, but because Monsanto's "governmental adviser" Mike Taylor, got himself a sweet position inside the Clinton Administration, and from that position, he PROCLAIMED THAT GM foods seeds and crops would produce foods that are nutritionally similar to conventional crops. This was quite early on inside the history of those seeds, crops and foods, so there was zilch in terms of scientific data. (Back in the good old days, before the Corporations took over Truth, scientists would take decades to study a situation before publishing if something was or wasn't okay. But in our modern era of corporate control, no one even needs data - they just make proclamations!)
Science by proclamation is exactly where we are right now. And what became of Mike Taylor? Currently he heads an entire division over at the FDA, as Obama is just as eager as Bill was to get handed some $ 250,000 per speech at corporate podium when he retires from the Oval Office.
Here is what Israeli Foreign Minister stated back in 1967 --
Here's what Abba Eban, then the Israeli Foreign Minister and later the recipient of the Israel Prize, said to the UN General Assembly on June 19, 1967:
The blockade is by definition an act of war, imposed and enforced through armed violence. Never in history have blockade and peace existed side by side. From May 24 onward, the question who started the war or who fired the first shot became momentously irrelevant. There is no difference in civil law between murdering a man by slow strangulation or killing him by a shot in the bead. From the moment at which the blockade was imposed, active hostilities had commenced and Israel owed Egypt nothing of her Charter rights. If a foreign power sought to close Odessa or Copenhagen or Marseilles or New York harbour by the use of force, what would happen? Would there be any discussion about who had fired the first shot? Would anyone ask whether aggression had begun?
So that's the funny part:
By Israel’s standards, Hamas has been entitled (since the start of the blockade in 2007) to invade Israel and then occupy it for forty years.
Maybe Hamas officials should start pointing this out. They can direct curious reporters to the only place I can find Eban's speech online, the website of the Israel Defense Forces.
All of the above from the people over at TinyRevolution.com
I want to invite people here to check out this Health Topic
http://www.democraticunderground.com/114213103Hopefully this link will take you to the new study out on a mutant protein and its implications for helping those with autism and asperger's to recover.
Study on Mutant Protein May Help Unlock Autism
And may end up helping autistic people recover their lives.
http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2014/mutant-protein-causes-reversible-autism-like-behaviors
Mice that begin expressing a mutant version of a protein called neurexin at 2 weeks of age develop autism-like behaviors that researchers can erase weeks or months later. The report, published 24 July in Cell Reports, suggests that it may be possible to treat autism symptoms even in adulthood1.
In particular, the animals’ social behavior, such as self-grooming and interaction with other mice, returned to normal. “I think this is good news for the autism field because it shows that reversion even in old animals can be possible,” says lead researcher Francisco G. Scholl, professor of medical physiology and biophysics at the University of Seville in Spain.
The neurexin family of proteins helps neurons send signals across a synapse — the point at which two neurons connect. From their position on one side of the synapse, they bind to another family of proteins called neuroligins on the other side to facilitate the release of chemical messengers2. Mutations in neurexins and other synaptic proteins have been linked to autism.
Several studies over the past few years have successfully reversed symptoms in mouse models of autism and related conditions such as Rett syndrome, tuberous sclerosis and fragile X syndrome. Last year, for example, researchers administered gene therapy to correct behavioral and other deficits in adult mice modeling Rett syndrome, and another study used a drug for sleeping sickness to reverse social and other deficits in a mouse model of severe autism.
I am not sure that I get the gist of your remark.
This nation has been anti-gay until just recently. I mean, fifty years ago, most citizens here were virulently anti-gay.
And we are still against women, yet we use as a selling tool for our wars the fact that women in other nations wear a burkha. (Women here wear a burkha also, as the societal requirement that we all be a size 4. We women have to be anorexic in order to qualify as "real" women. I didn't eat a real meal from the time I was 19 until I was 24.)
Yet women I know who go into the Armed Services have had very degrading and dangerous things happen to them, at the hands of their "fellow" service people, and nothing is done about that?
Anyway, I was posting about the issue of people desiring for kids to grow up in peace. What that has to do with being gay, I don't know. You are aware that of the many kids recently killed in Gaza, some of them w ould have grown up to be LBGT, although I am hoping you are not suggesting that only the gay children in that crowd should be mourned.
BTW, one Barack Obama did not openly support the quest of gay people for their civil rights until recently, as he was trying to appeal to the rather conservative types of fellow African Americans who don't support being gay. But he gets a free pass, doesn't he, no matter what!
July 29th 2014 - When is enough enough in CrazyLand USA?
So I happened to run on CNN for a few minutes yesterday. I rarely inflict this on myself, but due to this week's high outoor temperatures, and mild heatstroke, I thought a little TV couldn't hurt.
Well, in less than one hour I found out that a young African American High Schooler was probably killed inside his HS's gym. His body was found inside a rolled up gym mat, with the school's explanation being that the teenager had crawled inside the gym mat in order to find his lost shoe, and then he suffocated... WTF?
His family is now suing the school district, for their not coming forth with further evidence. Evidently this young man was also in serious and on going conflict with another HS'er, who happens to be white. Although the school did release some video footage, a twelve second gap in the video recording appears to take place.
Then CNN goes to commercial. When they come back, I find out that recently a mother was arrested for the crime of letting her seven year old walk to a local park. By himself.
CNN talking heads basically then scold the TV viewers for their free thought processes. "Just because back in the day you let your kids walk to the local park, doesn't meant hat a parent should do this in this day and age."
They show that the park was a full half mile from the residence. They also show the numerous child predators who live in the area. Once they pull the screen down to the actual area where the kid was walking around, there were only three predators in that area. From what I know of child predators, it is basically impossible to keep your kid safe from any of them, if they really are predators. (I lived in same area of the world where Polly Klass was taken by a pedophile, from her own bedroom, while in the company of an entire group of kids celebrating her birthday, with the parent at home at the time of the abduction.)
I think what threw me into a loop was the stark contrast. On one hand, you are able to be arrested. For the crime of letting your kid being a kid. On the other hand, your child can die - outright die - with his body being found in a gym mat in the HS gym and school officials are given a pass, if the possible perpetrator is white.
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