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Hepatitis Revisited

     I have never made it a secret how I got Hepatitis.  I got is injecting cocaine with a partner that had it back in the '70's.  In the 70's no one knew much about it.  They knew there was Hep A and Hep B and then there was this other thing.  They didn't know what it was, this other "thing."  They called it non A or non B.  The red Cross didn't start screening for non A-B until about 1987.
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     So fast foreword to 1995.  The symptoms of Hep are suttle, tiredness, loss of appetite, nausea.  I didn't know if I was just tired or had the flu. The doc told me I had Hepatitis C.  I was stunned for there is no cure.  I began researching all I could find about Hepatitis.  I was amazed that there were thousands of cases of "SPONTANIOUS" hepatitis.  People that never had a tainted blood transfusion and never was an IV drug user.  I always wondered how a super bug like Hep could invade my body and stay hidden for 20 years before it decided to come out and fuck with me.  I discovered that it is very hard to kill. 
    Alcohol will not kill it unless left in contact with the alcohol indefinitely.  That means that a quick swipe with an alcohol swab won't do it, industrial cleaning solutions used in institution, homeless shelters and other public building won't kill it.  The autoclave used in hospitals to kill germs on instruments don't ALWAYS kill it.  Bleach is the only sure killer.

     Recently I was in a discussion with a former military nurse, Viet Nam era, she gave hundreds of shots to hundreds of soldiers.  The needles and equipment were re-used after being sanitized only in the alcohol which may not kill the non A non B virus.  It's entirely possible, she believes, she was injecting this super bug into the soldiers.  Could this account for perhaps some of the "spontaneous" cases?

     I discussed the same situation with a pathologist doctor friend of mine.  He told me of his days as a military doctor injecting 50 to 60 soldiers at a time with one of those "guns", bang bang bang, standing in the rain, blood running down their arms.  "Is it possible," I asked, " that you were unknowingly injecting non A non B virus into the soldiers?"  "Absolutely" he said, and added, "you can get a lot of weird shit in the military." Could this perhaps account for some of the "spontaneous cases?

     I discussed this situation with Dr. Tom Orvald, a retired heart surgeon friend of mine.  He agrees non A and non B  have been unknowing injected accidentally for years..

     And then there is the original hypodermic needle, the mosquito.  If a mosquito can bite someone with malaria and bite some else and give them malaria, can't they bite some one with Hep C and then bite someone else and give them Hep C.  "Yes of course," agreed Dr Orvald.

     My detectives mind was never satisfied with the unknown, the explanation that this super bug, this almost impossible to kill bug, this bug that can hide in your body for 20 plus years and then  come on subtlety to kill you, could be contacted spontaneously.  I got hepatitis shooting cocaine, but there are thousands with hepatitis that never were drug addicts that non the less suffer the stigma of a drug user.

     I sincerely hope this explanation backed by medical professionals lifts the stigma.  Blame it on the military or any line you may have stood in years ago getting shots. Spontaneous is not how anyone gets this super bug!!

THE MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006

       HoHum...Yawn, yawn.  Does anyone realize what the hell happened to us this month, (October 2006) or are we all too busy watching Entertainment tonight?  Is it what we don't know, what happened or we don't understand  Both I suspect.

     I have been telling you for months that this President is stealing our rights, that the constitution is dead, that the Patriot Act is really an act of treason.     I told you how they declared the Rainbow gathering this year in Colorado a National Incident and practiced their terrorism protocol by arresting people for just being there, trying to get there, and their attorneys were not allowed to see them or represent them.  I told you secret trials were held in a fire house.

     A lot of people see what the supposedly elected reps have done to us, but too many do not.  I mean that I didn't elect anyone to congress that would suspend the constitution.  Did You?  Did you want our country to become the country our forefathers came here to get away from?
Don't you know that George Washington, the hemp grower, Ben Franklin, the hemp grower and Abe Lincoln, the freer of slaves, have not only turned over in their graves but are still spinning.  They must be thinking we have all lost our minds.  Didn't we learn anything from them?  What is the old cliche?  If you don't learn your lessons from history then you are bound to repeat them?

     Well fuck me if I want to go back to the ways of Nazi Germany!!!

     So what can we expect next from these guys.  Bush now has the power to arrest us all or any of us for any reason they think up.  Could.d he declare Martial Law?  Could he suspend the next election and just take over?  Yes he could.  What kind of incident/disaster would it take to tighten up the power grab?   Certainly, another national incident real or made up, like they blew up the world Trade Center.   Is the West coast in for something big?  Will they blow up the Golden Gate bridge?
Bush needs a threat on both coasts of Americka to frighten us into submission.

     Could Martial law work in Amerika?  NO!!

     The country is too big geographically  Home land security was not able to manage even a regional disaster like Katrina.  Not that they really cared about helping people, but still it was beyond their ability to manage.  Martial law was easier to manage in Nazi Germany.Germany is a small country.  I lived there for two years and you can drive from one end of the country to the other on the autobahn in about 3 hours. The Feds do NOT have the manpower to control us.  Not as easy as locking up the Japanese during WW2.  And what happened to their constitutional rights?  Didn't the government finally apologize to them?  Who is going to apologize to me?

     I am already hearing talk from real patriots about not letting this bastard take the country away from us.  Just try and declare Martial law on independent Oregonians, independent folks in Montana, Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming.  We still have a frontier mentality.

     And finally, the national guard, already sick of the war in Iraq, would have to control us to make it work.  Are your neighbors in the guard going to enforce Martial law against you?  The short answer is no!

     I have given you some of the possibilities of what might happen next.  Figuring the administration's next move head long at us won't be easy, but you know it will not be good.

     While we were sleeping, eating, watching tv and having  sex, they took our country
What are we going to do about it?.

DO THE RIGHT THING

     I sometimes use my position on televison as a bully pulpit to help folks see what needs to be done in the community.  And this editorial is about doing the right thing.

     When someone you know needs help, what goes through your mind?  A dozen reasons why it would not be convenient for you!  Like helping the person might put you out, might cost you money.  If the person is temporarily homeless and needs a place to stay, would you offer shelter?  Or would it be an interruption to your routine?  When you see a shabby appearing person asking for money in front of the super market, do you look the other way, avoid eye contact or step aside?  How about the homeless person laying in the door way you pas every day.  Have you ever stopped to see if you could help?

     Why is our first reaction to a request for help, even if the request is a SILENT look, a negative reaction?

      NOT ME!  DON'T LOOK AT ME! DON'T ASK ME!

     Could it be because we see ourselves in that person?  You already know your life and circumstance can change in a heartbeat.  Ten minutes of the evening news show you that.  So...that person asking for help could be you or one of your family and if it WAS you or YOURS, would you want the prosperous person passing by to say  NOT ME!  DON'T LOOK AT ME!  DON'T ASK ME!  GET A JOB!

     ......No...you would want them to help you and not think you were a bum, an addict or a slackard, or disgusting.       

     As I grow inevitably older, I hope I grow wiser too.  There is so much human need in a world of evil.  I have always been drawn to helping people.  As a young policeman I honestly thought if I put enough bad guys in jail I could make the world a better place.  I realized only later that the bad guys were the cops.  I left when I would no longer get around, under or over the corruption and murders.

      As a cop I saw a lot of homeless people and the homeless have my heart and my voice more than any other.  I spent 6 years managing a homeless shelter and I made a difference in a lot of lives.

     I ran for Sheriff of Multnomah County because I knew I could have made a huge difference and helped a lot more folks.

     There should not be any politicians.  Just public servants doing the right thing for the people.  When you are asked for help, say "Yes."  Say yes to yourself because in a very real sense that person IS you.  It is not about being a Christian or a Buddhist or a Mormon, it's about doing the right thing.

     Remember, a gun shot, a car crash a missed heart beat and I could be standing in front of my maker.  And when I'm there I'd like to be able to say, "I helped as many people as I could as long as I could until you called me here, and Sir, of Madam, I hope you can help me now!"

PAIN-IN-THE-ASS PAIN MANAGEMENT

     Thank goodness chronic pain is covered by the Oregon medical marijuana law.  So many of us suffer chronic pain, pain management has become an industry, a specialty unto itself & highly lucrative to Big-Pharma.
But a rebellion has begun by pain patients with too many years experience with Vicodin, Phentenal patches, Oxycodone-Oxycontin, morphine pumps and the most insidious, in my opinion, possibly the most addicting pain management pill, Methadone. Methadone is the favored (cheapest at about 5 cents a pill, vice Oxycodone $4 bucks a pill) addictor-pain manager available.

     I talk to patients every day that say these drugs, are ruining their lives with the lousy side effects, causing problems in their family relationships, ruining their bodies, having to process the chemicals.  Then they tell me the drugs are not working, or no longer working.  They tell me they don't want to put chemicals in their bodies anymore or ever again.  They tell me that their doctors won't seem to listen when they say, "No more vicodin.  It makes me sick."  "No more morphine or methadone, I don't want to be addicted any more."

     Then they tell me they already know marijuana works for their pain, they tried it on their own, or a friend gave them some...but AAHHH bring up marijuana to their doctor and the shit hits the fan.  Doctors reactions I'm told are everything from "You can't be serious," or "You're just trying to get high," to threatening to cut off the patients they know are addicted to the narcotic they are about to write another "scrip" for...that the patient don't want. In effect the doctor is saying "Now that I have you hooked, you are part of my income.  I won't let you go."  Isn't the heroin dealer on the corner doing the same thing? Patients tell me that their doctors are no longer doing anything for them, but are not doing things to them, including threatening them.  "My way or the hiway now that I have you hooked." 

     I am not making this up.  I hear this from patients every day about their doctors. What's wrong here?

     What's wrong is most doctors are too ingrained with Pharma and have NO REAL KNOWLEDGE or natural medicine, and are afraid to "break ranks" if you will, are afraid of loosing patients, ie income, and lack the genuine compassion necessary to first LISTEN to the patient and follow the Hippocratic oath. (First do no harm!)

     Pain management doctors are "system" doctors faced with an increasing patient dissatisfaction with "the system."  More and more pain patients, running from big Pharma, are looking desperately for natural medicine in general and natural PAIN medicine in particular.

     Our THCF medical clinics are pain management clinics offering legal access to the oldest pain medicine in the world...AND something apparently new in medicine, doctors that will listen and  have compassion.

     THCF is as anti-system as it gets and we invite you to join us if you qualify under state  law.

SSD-THE GOVERNMENT CRAP HEAP

     I see these folks in the medical clinic where I work every day, men that spent 20 years carrying sheet rock, 20 years on their knees kicking in carpet or setting tile or floating in concrete, 20 years swing a framing hammer, 20 years painting bridges and inhaling paint fumes.  These are the men and women that drive the corporate profits, the ones that make the stock holders happy and in the mean time try and make a living wage to support the family.  But now in your 40's or 50's your knees are shot, you can't raise a hammer above your head, years of paint fumes cloud your thinking...and you can't work any more!!  The company probably went broke, down sized or out sourced or moved to Bangladesh, probably with your pension...and you folks that made $600 a week swing a hammer are now trying to figure out how to live on $603 a month SS disability.

     Are any of you out there trying to figure out how this happened?  How you went from  wage earner to poverty heap?  We are a throw away society, we throw away every  thing from beer cans to human beings.  No longer useful?  No longer a tax payer?  Off to the disability scrap heap.  $603 a month and have a good day.  We might throw in a few food stamps and perhaps put you on a list for substandard housing too.

    So it takes a while to realize you have been consigned to poverty by who? Well who writes the checks?  Uncle Sam the poverty man!! It is the government's fault that you are in poverty.  The government that spends your tax money on every thing...except you!!  Bombs and bullets and all the other expensive war things that DESTROY OUR HUMANITY AND ALLOW US TO THINK IT IS ALRIGHT TO MAINTAIN A POVERTY CLASS.

     President Bush is trying to legalize torture, has tortured and still tortures.  This man will always maintain a poverty class until he figures out a way to get rid of those that no longer are producers.  To them there are only two classes of people, the producers, the elite, and the scrap heap.   

     So if you are just now figuring out you don't matter any more, you have just figured out you're on the government crap heap.  But the crap heap is a data base.  We're all in the computer, the SS suckers, the homeless suckers, the methadone patients, all of us that are addicted to something big Pharma sells.  The undesirables are already on a computer disk!!

      Seems to me it's the same thing the Nazi's did.  But Bushcheney have better computers!
We've lost our privacy, we've lost our constitution, we've lost our freedom and somewhere I just know they are building the gulags.

     Too far fetched for ya...well that's the way I see it.

+++ 30,521+++

     30,521 is a number burned into my mind.  30,521 is the number of Multnomah County residents that voted for me for sheriff of Multnomah county.  The election ended May 31.  Had I won and if I could have taken office that day, we would now be 90 days into my administration.  Let me give you an idea of what would be happening right now in Multnomah County.

     By now I wold have worked every patrol shift, every jail shift, every shift on the river patrol and worked with every detective.  I would be well underway to a professional study of how the Sheriff's office should be economically staffed.  The study would be accurate because I would have worked the shifts.

     We'd have torn down some of the barbed wire at Wapato jail   The already existing class rooms, there to teach non-existing inmates GED, would now be class rooms teaching children.  The hospital would be treating the under served children and elderly, and the many dorms would be housing for the homeless.  How do I know?  Because I would open it with $30,000 of my own money.

     I wold interview every cop on the so-called inter agency drug team that didn't work for me. I would be working over their shoulder...and they would know it.

     All marijuana arrests would stop!! And all in progress drug investigations would be approved  by me.  Or not!

     The Patriot act would be gone.  Multnomah County would have the old constitution back. Homeland Security could have their damned speed boats back.  I think the SO got two of them.  We'd buy our own boats with the money we'd save by not arresting the same poor people over and over again.

     Can you say revolving jail door boys and girls?  Can you say treatment?

     Part of the initial funding for Wapato jail was for treatment.  I wanted to do it.  Meth addicts would be forced into treatment.   Remember the faces of Meth?  That's proof that arresting them over and over don't work  STOP IT!  TREAT IT!

     Tazers would be history in Multnomah County, by order of the high sheriff.  I would heed the call of Amnesty International to ban the damned things and no law enforcement agency would be allowed to use them.  Amnesty International would be invited to a ceremony where they would be destroyed.

     By now the county attorney at my direction would have filed a lawsuit against the police union in Multnomah County to end once and for all special justice for police.  The 14'th amendment requires "equal justice for all,"  not an internal affairs white wash that covers up all police wrong doing.   Have you ever wondered why no matter what cops seem to do they are always within their police department policy?  Cops that worked for me and screwed up, would have their hearings in council chambers in front of the tax payers that employ them...or they would be mowing the lawn at the jail on the graveyard shift!  No more special justice for cops!!

     By now, holistic progressive policies would would have begun in Multnomah County politics.  I would pressure, cajole, and harass if necessary county and city bureaucrats that make over $80,000 a year at the public trough to give back 25 or 30 thousand like I would.  What if all 5 county commissioners gave back 25 grand.  We'd have instant cash to unstick the stuck bureaucracy.  Oh yeah, the DEA would not be welcome in MC either.

     And finally one last thing.  The reason I left the cops was because they were running drugs and killing people.  This is not hearsay or rumor.  I have personal knowledge of it and nothing has changed.  Ask the new lady police chief why she won't investigate the murder of Zebedee Manning.  The corrupt cops will never investigate themselves.

     30,521 votes scared the hell out of them.  So what happens next?   I don't know.  Supporters please tell me.

Don DuPay

MORE CANNABIS AND THE CHRISTIANS

     The week end of August 19 I attended Hempfest in Seattle.  There were record crowds, over 200,000 people enjoying the music, the food and the marijuana.  200,000 peaceful people.  In contrast, the bible thumpers carrying a sign 8 feet tall, proclaimed us all sinners. Marijuana users will go to hell and somehow Armageddon is our fault.

     They were the only voice of dissension.  To those folks, and to the thumpers that appear at our own Hempstalk 2006 let me give you a bible lesson.

     Many people over the years, have done hours of research.  There are dozens if not hundreds, of references from prestigious scientific and medical researchers that prove this God given plant is good for you.  John 8:32  "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."  So...this is the truth.  I am using freely, reference work done by others.  I am merely putting it into perspective.

     Two bibles were used in this study, the authorized King James version, and the New American Standard version.  Old and new testament verses are used to show  continuity in God's treatment of Marijuana.   The New Standard version:  Genesis 1:29, God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed;  it shall be food for you."  King James says "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, and the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be meat."

     Timothy 4: 1-4 New American Standard, "For everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude."  King James:  for every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving."
does genesis 1:29 apply today?  Yes It reveals God's will for all seed-bearing plants.  Marijuana is clearly a seed-bearing plant.  This is so important that God put it in the very first chapter of the very first book of the bible.  It is that important to God for you to understand the gifts we have been given.  The bible speaks for itself.  It clearly says that God created marijuana for our use and says terrible things about those who seek to command abstinence.   Criminal sanctions command abstinence from plants which God has created.  This is so wrong and so evil!!  But we know George Bush is evil.

     Biblically marijuana is a seed-bearing plant.  Botanically marijuana is an herbaceous annual plant.  (Annual...it keeps coming back!) Botanically and scripturally marijuana is an herb and a food.  Humans can and have survived in robust health by eating marijuana seeds.

     I repeat;  Tim 4:4 "For everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with gratitude."  Now is you want to see grateful people, you will find them where marijuana has reduced pain vanquished a tumor, made depression disappear, or have just gather in happiness to SHARE each other's company."  John 13:35 Jesus says it is OK to gather in large loving groups

    Finally, Exodus, 30:21 is where God gave Moses the receipt for holy oil.  The ingredients are olive oil, cinnamon, myrrh and cannabis.  Nine pounds of cannabis flower in about 6 quarts of olive oil.  CANNABIS IS HOLY.  There is plenty of documentation if you are looking, and if you have an open mind.  The truth is in the bible!

STEM CELLS & THE NEW NAZI'S

     Didn't you wonder why George Bush, a man that knows nothing about medicine, aside from his own cocaine use, used his presidential veto to cancel federal money for stem cell research?  The best medical wisdom, including heart transplant surgeon, Dr. Tom  Orvald, see stem cells as having the ability to recreate damaged or destroyed body organs.  What a wonderful boon to human kind if we could fix broken and useless limbs and damaged nervous systems and recreate brain cells, damaged due to stroke and tumor. 

     So why did George Bush veto the use of federal money for this important and critical research?  Ask yourself this:  Who stands to benefit from keeping things the way they are?   Who stands to make money from keeping paraplegics from getting better, stroke victims from getting better, keeping quadriplegics in wheel chairs?   Could it be big-Pharma?

     These folks have warehouses full of medicine, vaccines, flu shots, leg and back braces, prosthetic appliances such as new feet, legs and arms.  A huge industry would be turned upside down by the ability to regenerate tissue. An industry that would loose billions of dollars.

     George W Bush protected his personal financial interests in big Pharma by using the presidential veto and reached a new and disgusting low.  This administration has been arresting and prosecuting sick medical marijuana patients since the day he took office, authorized torture, runs secret prisons in foreign countries and not so secret torture Chambers in Guantanamo.  He parades the morons he hires, the drug czars and attorney generals and pays them huge salaries from tax  dollars to lie.  The Bush administration uses paid liars.  Paid liars are called propagandists.  Propaganda is all we hear from the White House.

     We are loosing our rights.  They are  being taken away one by one right under your very nose.  Your right to protection from search and seizure went away with the Patriot act.  Your privacy has long ago disappeared with it too.  Your phone conversations and your e-mails are being watched by "homeland security."  Homeland Security is the new name for the Gestapo practicing their techniques on the traditional "rainbow family" gathering in Steamboat Springs Colorado this month. (August 2006)  Their gathering has been declared a "National Incident."  What follows then is federal military law.  Permits for the gathering are never issued.  Over five hundred people have been issued citations and herded into trials behind closed doors in a fire station garage.  Attorneys are not allowed to attend the trials.  This is the concentration camp techniques began in Nazi Germany and continued by our government in Guantanamo Cuba and prisons in Iraq.

     These folks are not even thinking about stem cell research!!

     Look  folks, all the Nazi's did not escape to Brazil.  they are in the White House.  They are stripping your rights away one at a time.  In 2008 the federal Id card is coming with your very own computer chip in it.  You will not be able to open a bank account without it or buy a train or plane ticket without it.  The government will know how much money you withdrew, and where you went with it.  That is if they decide to let you go anywhere assuming you are not on some homeland security list, and if you are on a list, will they break into your house and search your computer and your wife's underwear while you are gone?  And how will you know if they did?

     WE ARE LOSING AMERICA AND LOSING IT FAST!  HOW MUCH LONGER WILL YOU PUT UP WITH IT?   THIS IS WHAT I DO ABOUT IT.  I GET ON TV AND BITCH AND GET ON THE INTERNET AND BITCH.  WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT BEFORE THERE IS A PIECE OF RAZOR WIRE WITH YOUR NAME ON IT?

 

THE DEATH MERxCHANTS

     Dr. David Graham is a research scientist that works for the FDA.  He's the guy that researched the problems with Vioxx, the arthritis pain killing drug.  Dr. Graham told a senate investigating committee that his research indicated that Vioxx caused up to 160,000 hearth attacks and strokes.  Vioxx was responsible for an additional 27, 785 deaths from heart ailments from 1999 to 2003.  The FDA which seems to be an employee of Big-Pharma-Government (one word) except for Dr. Graham, tried to intimidate him and other reviewers when they had the audacity to point out safety concerns, that Vioxx might do more than kill the pain.  It was killing patients.  By the thousands!!

    Now if your name was Joe Blow, and you sold a product that killed a couple hundred thousand people, don't you think the government might be looking for you?do you think you might be accused of being the worst mass murderer since Hitler?  Wouldn't FOX news be on 24 hour court watch?  Oh yeah!

     Well...what the hell happened at Merck?

     The FDA, our alleged government watchdog, defended itself regarding Vioxx citing its "well documented and long-standing  commitment to openness and transparency in its review process."

     HUH?  Is that what happened here, an open and transparent process from a government agency that allowed the murder of thousands?

     Merck's CEO, at the time, Raymond Gilmartin told the senate "in fact, my wife was taking Vioxx up until the day we withdrew it from the market."  My detective's mind knows that is a crock.  I'd like to put his wife on a lie detector.

     Insult your intelligence by checking out their website where you will find, "free and unbiased health information."  Considering what happened with these corporate marauders, that's a damned lie.  I'm quoting Mr. Gilmartin here, "Our ethical standards are the foundation of our company.  We strive to ensure that every Merck employee knows that meeting high ethical standards is at the heart of how we do business."  "...ethics is among the reasons why Merck has consistently been recognized as one of the world's most ethical companies."

     This is Nazi style propaganda at its best.  Lie and deny, then do it some more!  We heard this same propaganda from General Electric when they abandoned Hanford, which is left as a nuclear sacrifice zone.  Nothing can live there for the next thousands of years, and the Northwest's citizens are left with an astounding rate of MS  disease.  The same story from WORLD COM and from ENRON.  "We are good and reputable corporations with miles of ethics written somewhere in our protocol."

     Every corporate raider has a thick folder containing the company code of ethics which means it is what the bosses wave in everyones face when the body count becomes unacceptable.  It is what the CEO's quote when they appear in front of senate investigating  committees.  Remember when the tobacco executives lined up and said one after another that cigarettes were not addicting?

     Remember this folks:  The government that is supposed to protect us, the very Senators and their investigating committees, owe their political future to the tobacco executives, the pharma-executives, the big oil executives and the bomb makers.

     So your job is to cooperate.  Be a humble victim.  Believe all you are told.  Pay close attention to all the tv commercials and "be sure and ask your doctor, if it is right for you."

MARINOL MADNESS

     The more I learn about the synthetic medication called Marinol, the more irritated I get about it, because, probation officers are now suggesting that their clients that are on medical marijuana, stop using it and "just why aren't you using Marinol anyway?"  The obvious answer is that the doctor did not tell the patient to take Marinol, the doctor suggested that the patient use marijuana for their health conditon.  I have heard that judges are suggesting that their probationers on medical marijuana "ought" to be using Marinol.  One judge told a probationer that "you're not going to be setting at home smoking marijuana, while you are on probation to me, use Marinol."  And by the way judge, just why do you think you can prescribe medicine from the bench?  (The judge probably slams down a couple of whiskeys with his Viagra, hoping to get lucky.)  As a cop, I know there are many power abusers on the bench in black robes.  Most judges are full of themselves.  But my point is they think that Marinol is the same as marijuana .

     IT IS NOT!!

     The Pharma-crooks have taken a simple but wonderful herb, synthesized one single cannabanoid, THC suspended it in sesame oil so you can't smoke it, then sell it for $970.00 per month.  $970.00 a month is what one patient I talked to spends for Marinol to treat his long standing nausea.  $970 JUST TO KEEP FROM PUKING.

     My God, that IS mad science, mad pharma-science, for sure, when you take a simple herb you can grow for a couple of dollars an ounce, (I've done it,) take a teeny part of it and synthesize it, call it Dronabanol and sell it for $970.  Their stock holders must be so proud.  To me Marinol represents the slime and the greed that is the pharma-crooks.  This slime and greed standard was set by Merck pharmaceuticals (in my opinion)  They are the folks that sold us Vioxx.  Vioxx killed 55,000 with heart attacks and stroke and disables thousand more.  Did our government arrest any one, indict any one, or fine anyone for this mass murder?

     NO.  OUR GOVERNMENT AND BOG PHARMA ARE ONE AND THE SAME.

     Has anyone figured out how much anti-depression medicine big pharma is selling in Iraq.  How much Prozac, how much Zanex, how much Valium?   Our pharma-government (that's one word now) creates confusion and disaster for profit.

     I'm also reminding you that is was George Herbert walker Bush that canceled, discontinued, and destroyed the Federal medical marijuana program, the program that still provides 300 marijuana cigarettes a month, BY MAIL, to the 6 or 7 remaining living patients.  I'm also reminding you that he was a major stockholder in Eli Lilly at the time.  I can just hear the conversations that must have occurred.  "Now George, we can't let people grow their own medicine, it will ruin us.  Besides our stuff is addicting.  Get it George?  They'll keep coming back and they'll pay our price."

     Now I'll leave it up to you to decide if his stock holdings and the conversations with his crony's influenced his decision to kill the Federal program?

     The good Lord gave us all the plants to use.  He put it on the very first page of the bible (Gen:Ch1 v11) so we couldn't miss it.  Man made drugs out of them, addicting the world to their chemicals, and themselves and their stockholders to profit and greed.   My favorite  doctor and partner on television , Dr. Thomas Orvald, a heart transplant surgeon will tell you that there are some good and useful drugs.  That is very true, but I'm still looking for a good "drug company" one that I can refer to with out using the words, Pharma-crook, pharma-terrorist or pharma-crook.   So far no luck!