A friend of mine suffers from
nerve pain and has great difficulty sleeping. When she sits in a chair,
she hangs her head down, folds her arms in her lap and sits slumped
over with her legs together as if trying to get in a fetal position.
The only time she can sleep is when she takes prescription muscle
relaxants but they give her a hang over the next day. The pain
medication doesn't really work and presents some undesirable side
effects on her.
She was complaining to me that she wished there
was a natural, homeopathic or herbal medicine which would help her with
her nerve pain and not have any side effects. I immediately suggested
marijuana. Despite actually being a natural, homeopathic and herbal
medicine, her voice rose with indignation saying that pot was an
addictive drug with dangerous side effects. It ills brain cells and she
would never take that. I told her that Steve Jobs was a pot smoker.
Look what it did to his brain.
It is amazing how Harry
Anslinger's lies about this natural, homeopathic and herbal plant have
endured over the decades despite medical research and thousands of my
and your neighbors and friends "testing" it on a daily basis. They
themselves, in secret, have been proving the lies to be wrong. It is
easy to beleive a lie when so many people say it is so.
I looked up my friend's nerve pain medication and here are the possible side effects:
difficult
or labored breathing, shortness of breath, tightness in the chest, ,
chills, cough, diarrhea, difficulty with swallowing, dizziness, fast
heartbeat, hives, itching, joint or muscle pain, puffiness or swelling
of the eyelids or around the eyes, skin lesions often with a purple
center, skin rash, sore throat, unusual tiredness or weakness,
accidental injury, bloating or swelling of the face, blurred vision,
numbness or pain in the hands, change in walking and balance,
clumsiness, confusion, delusions, dementia, difficulty having a bowel
movement, difficulty with speaking, double vision, dry mouth, fever,
headache, hoarseness, lack of coordination, loss of memory, lower back
or side pain, painful or difficult urination, weight gain, seeing
double, sensation of pins and needles, shakiness and unsteady walk,
problems with muscle control or coordination, unusual weight gain,
anxiety, bloated or full feeling, chest pain, cold sweats, coma, feeling
of discomfort or illness, loss of appetite, loss of bladder control,
loss of strength or energy, muscle aches and pains, muscle twitching or
jerking, muscle weakness, nausea, nervousness, nightmares, noisy
breathing, pain passing gas, rhythmic movement of the muscles, runny
nose, seizures, shivering, slurred speech, sweating, trouble sleeping,
twitching, uncontrolled eye movements, vomiting, thoughts of suicide,
suicide.
Here are the side effects for marijuana:
munchies, mellow, sound sleep.
I
shared with her my two experiences with marijuana. Personally I would
never smoke it. I wouldn't do that to my lungs and beside that, I can't
stand the smell of smoke and hate to be around people who do smoke. So
my first experience with marijuana was when I was in Washington State.
I went camping up to a glacier and since marijuana is legal in WA, at
the suggestion of a friend, I purchased a few doses in pill form and
took one before I went to sleep on the glacier. I slept the whole night
through while my hiking mates suffered the whole night freezing in the
20 degree temperature. I took one final pill on my return flight back
to NY. As my plane took off I put my head down. Six hours later I
awoke to the sound of the pilot saying "We are making our final decent
to Albany . . . " This stuff is amazing.
It is too bad when my
mother was suffering from nerve pain, her options were a concoction of
three pain medications and one antidepressant or, as an alternative:
morphine. All that suffering she endured and at the expense to the
insurance company could have been avoided if marijuana were legal. You
can bet that if she were alive today and still in that amount of pain, I
would personally risk arrest and prison to find her relief from all the
pain and suffering she endured in her final years.
For those
who beleive in the fairy tales passed down by word of mouth, I am sorry
you have been lied to and you beleive those lies; survival of the
fittest. Go ahead and take those lab created pills with all those
aforementioned side effects. For those of you wondering why marijuana
was given a bad rap in the first place, our first drug czar, Harry
Anslinger, who was in the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies,
alcohol and tobacco distributors, and the lumber and print media
industries, he made up stories about it. Coming out of the prohibition,
marijuana couldn't be taxed and was cutting into alcohol and tobacco
sales. Both the government and above mentioned industries were losing
money. His facts changed regularly and despite the scientific findings
in LaGuardia report, issued the following quotes:
...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.
Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.
There
are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes,
Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and
swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to
seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.
Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.
Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.
You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother.
Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.
Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men’s shadows and look at a white woman twice.
Colored
students at the Univ. of Minn. partying with white female students
smoking marijuana and getting their sympathy with stories of racial
persecution. Result pregnancy.
Two Negroes took a girl fourteen
years old and kept her for two days in a hut under the influence of
marihuana. Upon recovery she was found to be suffering from syphilis.
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Yup,
your call. Hopefully it will be to your elected representative
demanding that marijuana be made legal AND, everyone languishing in our
prisons today for past pot possession will be released and their records
sealed or expunged. Hey, it is your tax dollars keeping them there at
$30,000 per person per year. It all started with Harry Anslinger. Who
will it end with?
