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Marijuana Vs. Methadone: Methadone Kills - Marijuana Saves

[NOTE: I was a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology for 25 years.]

(PORTLAND, OR) - My recent article on this subject, July 24th 2012, brought in the most curious comment, inferring that I didn’t know what I was talking about regarding Methadone.

Concerning the Editorial Pot for PTSD? Oregon`s Medical Marijuana Law Needs Grounding in Science, Medicine

We have a preponderance of research on how cannabis works in the brain and body on PTSD.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I am glad that the Oregonian Editorial Board thinks enough of this subject matter to dedicate an entire editorial just to respond to the excellent article, earlier this week, by Oregonian's own Noelle Crombie.

However some of the things they say are incorrect and their tone is offensive to the men and women that I serve as a Veteran's advocate so I hope you will allow me time to address these issues.

Marijuana Legalization, Reefer Madness, and Mad Cow Disease at The Oregonian: Continued...

Oregon marijuana advocates want to get the Mexican drug cartels out of Oregon and the marijuana business.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Oregonian has recently published three articles demeaning the effort to legalize marijuana.

They seem to ignore the fact that most Oregonians and most Americans are in favor of legalization. Why the newspaper has this position is just NOT understandable.

Federal Judge Refuses Bail for Roger Christie After Two Years

The minister sits in a Federal holding cell in Hololulu with no end in sight.

(SALEM) - Two years ago, everything became surreal. In one fail swoop, fourteen people from their church congregation (The Hawai`i Cannabis Ministry) were arrested and charged with marijuana-related crimes. Not assaulting, killing, raping, murdering, robbing, stealing, bribing, child porn, espionage, terrorism or anything of the like. Just pot.

Dubbed “The Hilo 14”, they were charged with conspiracy to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute 284 marijuana plants.

`Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity` Calls for End to Drug War that`s Killed 60,000

Pro-Legalization Police Officers Join Poet Javier Sicilia and Other Drug War Victims to Make 6,000-Mile Journey Through 20 Cities to Honor Lives Lost to Failed Prohibition Policies, Culminating in International Day of Action in Washington, D.C.

(SAN DIEGO) - A broad bi-national coalition will join the Mexican Movement for Peace with Justice & Dignity (MPJD) on a month-long “Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity” across the US.

The Caravan is led by renowned Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, who emerged as a leader of the MPJD after his son Juan Francisco was killed in senseless prohibition-related violence last year.

Marijuana Legalization and Reefer Madness, or
Mad Cow Disease in Oregonian Editors

No state affiliated group would or could aid in any way to form the regulations to monitor or control marijuana dispensaries. We had to do it ourselves.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I don’t think I can have any other explanation of their article on Sunday, July 29th, 2012 entitled, “Flaws in the push to Legalize Marijuana.” and also a similar OPED denigration.

The Oregonian has been debasing medical marijuana since it became legal in 1999 but these two articles ‘take the cake’ in their vehement ignorance...

Marijuana Vs. Methadone

Cannabis/marijuana had never killed anybody in the probable 5,000 years of its use in medicine.

(MOLALLA, OR) - The New York Times published on July 10, 2012 that Methadone accounted for about 1/3 of deaths caused by opiate and opioids pain relievers in 2009 but they didn’t give the actual figure.

The opiate, Oxycodone, causes the most deaths followed by hydrocodone, (Vicodin) and Morphine but the opioid Methadone which had been used mostly to get addicts off heroin is now widely used as a pain killer.

Marijuana Dependents Lose Marijuana Cost Deductions

So says The Oregonian... and patients can get a legal Marinol prescription

(MOLALLA, OR) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Social Security Department, U.S.D.A. Food and Nutrition Service, with the connivance of many government anti-marijuana offices, has decided to kick disabled, destitute medical marijuana patients in the guts AGAIN with totally egregious erroneous statements that, "Marijuana has no currently accepted medical use and can not be prescribed for any medicinal use." Ridiculous.

Marijuana IS a Gateway Drug!
A Gateway to Health

New book sets the record straight on marijuana's role in a modern world.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - In MARIJUANA: GATEWAY TO HEALTH--How Cannabis Protects Us from Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease, Clint Werner uncovers the science proving marijuana's numerous health benefits and the myths go up in smoke.

Marijuana: Forbidden Medicine for Oregon`s Dangerous Workplace

I hope Dr. Grinspan will forgive my borrowing his title.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Dr. Sharon Meieren, an emergency physician who unfortunately doesn’t understand the difference between opiate and opioid drugs.