2005-01-09
POTSHOTS
PIX CREDIT: Mike Breen's photo of marijuana fields in China
Montanans, according to a recent New York Times Magazine article, are all fired up about passing medical marijuana laws | According to the article [published 02 jan 2005] "...unruly Montana (which until a few years ago had no daytime speed limit and still permits motorists to drink while driving as long as they're not intoxicated) 
blurred the national political color code by legalizing medical marijuana at the same time it backed the Republican president..." | This put the urban media elite into a philosophical tailspin, wondering, as it were, what has this state's residents not walking lock-step with the Bush administration on the Pot issue? | Truth is, reality isn't that simple |
I'm going to defer on the political analysis to pundits, given that we could get into our own tailspin on the whys and wherefores here | Right now I'd rather look at the statistics available about marijuana law reform in general and of sites that look at the subject less passionately |
DRC Net has been tracking drug policy for years | They even published research documenting marijuana's apparent ability to act as an antagonist to suppress pain |
As a side note, I find it of interest ~though not a surprise ~ to observe that Ian Meng's hydrocarbon diagram notes Big Pharma player Pfizer's [presumably patented] compound CP 55,940 being remarkabily similar in composition to natural THC | Click on the image to the left and the footnote is easier to read | I realize that those who vehemently oppose decriminalization of psychoactive substances that are currently illegal in many places won't hear arguements to the contrary | This doesn't mean they should shelter themselves from studied investigation of facts that contradict their opinions | To this end, I suggest looking at Stop the Drug War, the Marijuana Policy Project as well as New Scientist's pages on drugs + alcohol research |
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PIX CREDIT: Mike Breen's photo of marijuana fields in China
Montanans, according to a recent New York Times Magazine article, are all fired up about passing medical marijuana laws | According to the article [published 02 jan 2005] "...unruly Montana (which until a few years ago had no daytime speed limit and still permits motorists to drink while driving as long as they're not intoxicated) blurred the national political color code by legalizing medical marijuana at the same time it backed the Republican president..." | This put the urban media elite into a philosophical tailspin, wondering, as it were, what has this state's residents not walking lock-step with the Bush administration on the Pot issue? | Truth is, reality isn't that simple |
I'm going to defer on the political analysis to pundits, given that we could get into our own tailspin on the whys and wherefores here | Right now I'd rather look at the statistics available about marijuana law reform in general and of sites that look at the subject less passionately |
DRC Net has been tracking drug policy for years | They even published research documenting marijuana's apparent ability to act as an antagonist to suppress pain |
As a side note, I find it of interest ~though not a surprise ~ to observe that Ian Meng's hydrocarbon diagram notes Big Pharma player Pfizer's [presumably patented] compound CP 55,940 being remarkabily similar in composition to natural THC | Click on the image to the left and the footnote is easier to read |
