Montel Williams: Israel leads in medical marijuana
31 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
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Emmy Award-winning television personality and patient activist Montel Williams said Sunday he was impressed with Israel’s liberal attitude toward medical marijuana, and he believes the U.S. could learn a thing or two from the Jewish state.
Williams was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999 and he has since been an outspoken advocate of medical marijuana to relieve pain caused by the disease.
The former host of the popular long-running talk show “The Montel Williams Show” is in Israel on a fact-finding mission to learn about its medicinal cannabis practices. He is meeting with legislators, scientists and physicians.
Jodie Emery at Washington state legalization bill press conference
07 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
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Jodie Emery gave testimony on Wednesday March 16th at a Washington State Legislature work session for House Bill 1550, which would have legalized, taxed and regulated marijuana for adults.
HB 1550, introduced by Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, would allow adults over 21 to purchase cannabis from licensed liquor stores, or grow their own at home. It also legalizes industrial hemp manufacturing and decriminalizes cannabis for 18 to 21-year-olds.
Inside Story – Is Mexico losing the war on drugs?
04 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
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What will it take to root out drug violence in Mexico?
Medical Marijuana Is Legal In Jersey, But M.S. Sufferer Will Still Do Time
16 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment
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New Jersey legalized medical marijuana last year, but Garden State resident and multiple sclerosis-sufferer John Wilson, 37, faces a five-year prison sentence for growing pot plants in his back yard. Wilson was busted back before the state legislature legalized weed for medical purposes, but despite pleading for clemency with Governor Chris Christie, Wilson will do time for “drug manufacturing.” Yesterday an appellate court panel rejected Wilson’s appeal, ruling that someone accused of manufacturing a drug cannot claim “personal use.”
Wilson’s debilitating disease affects the brain and spinal chord, and those who suffer from chronic illnesses like M.S. say that the THC in marijuana provides great relief. But during Wilson’s trial, the judge barred him from telling jurors that he was only growing the plant for his personal use, not for sale, and his lawyers were not allowed to call an expert to testify on the medical uses of marijuana. The appeals court found that the judge ruled correctly, and did not find the sentence overly harsh.
Legalization opinions
23 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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Since 1996, 16 states and the District of Columbia enacted legislation permitting the medicinal use of marijuana. Such statutes surely represent a step in the right direction, but this type of regulation has faced considerable opposition on behalf of the federal government. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the federal government maintains the position that marijuana holds no medical value. What’s more, Draconian federal penalties for possession and distribution of cannabis remain unchanged. Perhaps state level reform efforts should shift focus from decriminalization for medical use to outright legalization.
The problem with medical marijuana lies in its inherent exclusivity. For example, California’s system reflects a kind of unequal treatment based on class separation. In order to qualify as legitimate patients, cannabis users must first obtain a costly physician’s recommendation. This affords a certain degree of legal protection, but not as much as that of a state issued identification card. Of course, those carry a hefty price tag as does purchasing medication over the counter. These financial barriers essentially reserve medical marijuana for the privileged, an affluent and largely Caucasian demographic group that’s also less likely to be subject to arrest. While wealthy suburban young adults purchase premium quality ounces in the safety of retail establishments, many inner city residents scour the streets,leaving them vulnerable to prosecution. Full legalization eliminates lingering disparate treatment within the justice system, at least at the state/municipal level.
Furthermore, legitimate dispensaries put themselves at considerable personal risk simply by existing. State law enforcement agencies often collaborate with federal agencies to raid collectives, leaving volunteers to live in fear of aggressive police tactics. There’s no way to truly prevent these nefarious activities without modifying federal laws, but legalizing marijuanaaltogether at the state level would signify unwillingness to participate in joint ventures.
The taxation issue brings up several additional arguments in favor of legalization. States would be able to collect revenue on commercial sales, which could be used to support education, health care, and other public services. Advocates need to recognize that marijuana isn’t exactly a cash cow because a significant portion of sales would still occur “under the table”. Exchanges between friends or bartering transactions cannot be subject to retail fees. Nevertheless, it’s unwise to reject a solid source of income in a struggling economy based on these technicalities.
David Icke – Don’t be afraid… It’s just a ride …
21 Jul 2011 1 Comment
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EDC Vegas 2011 Official Trailer
02 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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David Icke-Brilliant Speech
28 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
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Hippies or Aliens ?
19 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
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In the middle of 1965 and 1967 hippies spread over height Ashbury District and started promoting their ideas of psychedelics and peace. The single most important event that put the Hippies on the map was held at the Golden Gate Park later known as the Trips festival.
One week long festival designed to experience LSD trips took place at Golden gate bridge which in following years held infinite number of events lead by various musicians and artists.
Early Hippies were basically musicians and artists. This new tribe or religion or group of people was so strange that people from conservative middle class could not relate to them initially and saw them as aliens.
Hardly did they know the fact that all that these hippies ever wanted was and ever stood for was peace, love, unity, freedom, respect, dance, bliss, joy and a feeling of oneness with the world. They had an immense love for nature.
Hippies were known for their belief in ideas of peace, never ending parties with enormous supplies of psychedelics, music and dance. They believed that life is a gift to embrace and enjoy it not to slave themselves for others intuition. They filled their lives with colors of love for everyone. They would socialize during the day and would party all night in their funny and lively clothing, they would drink beer, sing songs of love, unity and danced on different numbers of various genres.
The most incredible innovation of the age, Internet may never happen without the Hippies movement’s ideas toward Oneness and unity.
The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance
13 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
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This lively textual symposium offers a rich harvest of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon, the collection hosts interdisciplinary research attending to psytrance as a product of intersecting local and global trajectories. With coverage of scenes in Goa, the UK, Israel, Japan, Italy, the US, Portugal, The Czech Republic and Australia, the collection features a dozen chapters from scholars researching psytrance in worldwide locations, employing various methods, within multiple disciplines. With chapters offering significant contributions to our understanding of globalization and music cultures, scene demise and transformation, ephemeral and cosmopolitan assemblages, counterculture and paradox, psychedelicization and genre, virtual tribes and the Internet, the carnivalesque and the aesthetics of nonsense, festivals and the logics of sacrifice, and other topics, Psytrance will strike interest across anthropology, sociology and studies in popular music, culture, media, history and religion.
“Psytrance is an intriguing transnational phenomenon for anyone interested in popular music, subcultures, and alternative spiritualities and lifestyles. Although still relatively unexplored, it is an increasingly significant area of study in Sociology, Cultural Studies, Popular Music Studies and Religious Studies. A dynamic feature of a multi-faceted, global, psychedelic culture, psytrance presents the scholar with a fascinating, if bewildering array of musicological, cultural, and spiritual confluences. Edited by Graham St John, the foremost EDMC theorist, this stimulating collection of essays by some of the key researchers in the field provides a genuinely insightful and engaging contribution to the study of psytrance, which students, tutors, and researchers will be turning to for many years to come. I warmly and enthusiastically welcome it.” –Christopher Partridge, Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, UK
“Graham St John has assembled a thought-provoking and rewarding collection of essays that explores the rarely considered musical and cultural practices that make up psytrance. Dedicated to its local variants and its global tendrils, this collection frames psytrance through scenes, subcultures, neo-tribes, political economies, cultural politics, and aesthetics, as well as movement and mobility, giving us an engaging contribution to the nascent study of electronic dance music cultures.” — Geoff Stahl, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa – New Zealand
